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South King Housing and Homelessness Partners (SKHHP) is a coalition of 10 jurisdictions working
together and sharing resources in order to increase the available options for South King County
residents to access affordable housing and to preserve the existing affordable housing stock.
SKHHP supports the following state legislative priorities for 2021:
HOUSING STABILITY
Support implementation of statewide just
cause eviction legislation to improve housing
stability and create consistency in information
and education.
Advocate for additional resources to address
housing instability created by the economic
impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including
rent assistance and foreclosure/eviction
prevention assistance.
FISCAL FLEXIBILITY
Lift the 1% property tax cap. Current
revenues are not enough for many cities to
support community expectations and priorities
and city tax structures are not keeping up with
traditional rate of inflation and growing costs.
Lifting the property tax increase will allow
funding flexibility and preserve critical city
services.
Authorize property tax-based tax increment
financing, with a constitutional amendment if
necessary. This will allow cities to access
critically needed funding for local economic
raise property taxes on residents but allows
development to pay for the public infrastructure
needed.
INCREASE AND PRESERVE
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Invest $250 million in the State Housing
Trust Fund from the Capital Budget, with
$10 million for preservation of affordable
housing.
Provide direct funding to the South King
Housing and Homelessness Partners
(SKHHP) Housing Capital Fund. SKHHP
partner cities are actively working to
establish a mechanism to pool sales tax
credit revenues authorized by SHB 1406.
State matching funds will provide much
needed investment in affordable housing in
South King County.
INCREASE STATE RESOURCES TO
PREVENT AND END
HOMELESSNESS
Significantly increase state document
recording fee specifically increase the
document recording fee by $100 to increase
state and regional resources to prevent and
end homelessness.
2021 South King Housing and Homelessness Partners
Washington State Legislative Priorities
Contact: Angela San Filippo
Executive Manager
asanfilippo@skhhp.org
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