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Did you know that Shaping Spokane Housing – the initiative that has led to accessory dwelling unit code updates, the Building Opportunity and Choices for All interim ordinance, and the ongoing Building Opportunity for Housing project – was created to help implement the City’s Housing Action Plan?
In July 2021, the City adopted its Housing Action Plan (HAP) to focus on implementation of housing policies and goals. The HAP identifies actions that the city can pursue to encourage more housing options and create more homes for more people. The Housing Action Plan built upon past initiatives and community discussions around infill development, housing quality, and affordable housing funding. The HAP yielded a coordinated set of strategies, based on community priorities, that supports more people being able to find a home that meets their needs with access to opportunities, services, and amenities.
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Priority A: Increase housing supply, options, and affordability for all incomes.
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Priority B: Preserve housing affordability and quality to help people thrive where they live.
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Priority C: Enhance equitable access to housing and homeownership.
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Priority D: Leverage and grow partnerships to support housing initiatives across the region.
Shaping Spokane Housing has helped and continued to help move some of the HAP strategies forward by expanding allowed housing types and encouraging missing middle housing throughout Spokane’s neighborhoods, continuing to streamline and simplify changes to the City’s permit process, and revising accessory dwelling unit standards to allow for additional flexibility.
Learn more about the Spokane Housing Action Plan
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