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Consultant outlines housing targets: Rainier must plan for ~571 new units, including 150 at 30% AMI
Summary
The consultant presented data on Rainier's housing targets through 2045: the city’s allocation requires about 571 new units and the housing chapter identifies roughly 150 units expected to be for households at 30% of area median income; consultant cited median home value ($413,000) and median rent ($1,128) from 2023 ACS data.
Consultant Larry Levine walked the commission through housing chapter statistics, telling commissioners that Rainier had about 850 housing units in the city limits in 2020 and a planning allocation that implies roughly 1,421 units by 2045 — requiring about 571 new units. Levine said the allocation includes an affordability target with about 150 units earmarked for households at 30% of area median income.
Levine also reviewed affordability and demographic measures the chapter uses: median home value in 2023 of about $413,000 and median rent around $1,128 per month, plus a citation that roughly 54% of renters were spending more than 35% of their gross income on housing in the cited dataset. He emphasized data limitations in the 2020 census and that staff used multiple sources to develop a defensible range of projections.
