Middle housing: ‘A better future’

Re: “WA Senate passes bill allowing duplexes, fourplexes in single-family zones” [April 11, Local News]:

Lack of adequate housing for the massive improve in inhabitants within the Seattle space prior to now 10 years has brought about housing costs to skyrocket. This has strained the budgets of these within the working and center courses, inflicting many to go away the world, and has pushed many with the bottom incomes into homelessness.

The center housing invoice will permit property house owners to create duplexes and in some areas even fourplexes, which might be an excellent begin to offering the 1 million new dwellings the state tasks Washington might want to assemble within the subsequent 20 years. The Legislature is to be counseled for permitting the creation of extra housing so we will start to resolve Washington’s housing and homelessness disaster, making a greater future for all of us.

Greg Smith, Seattle