Local & Statewide Housing Policy: Updates, Outcomes and What’s Ahead

This course examines the evolving housing policies and planning initiatives across Washington State, with a particular focus on King County and Seattle. Presenters from the City of Seattle and the Office of Governor Bob Ferson discuss key legislative outcomes from the recent session that directly impact housing development and affordability.

Presenter:
Rico Quirindongo, AIA, Director, Office of Planning and Community Development | City of Seattle and Nicholas Carr, Senior Policy Advisor for Housing | Office of Governor Bob Ferguson

Middle Housing: The Promise of Expanding Neighborhood Access & Homeownership

This course explores middle housing zoning and how architects, designers, policymakers and advocates can promote outcomes that balance density, affordability, equity and neighborhood character, especially in diverse lot types and urban contexts. Panelists discuss how Washington cities will be revising zoning codes to require a minimum density for middle housing on all residential lots, which promises to unlock needed room for housing, (re)legalize diverse types, and usher in more choices in areas historically reserved for low-density, high-cost real estate.

Presenter:
Moderated by Rob Humble Principal | Hybrid with presentations by Eric Kronberg | Kronberg Urbanists + Architects, Uytael Lee | About Here, and Yi-Chun Lin, NOMA, NCARB | Board & Vellum

Transit Oriented Districts: Leveraging TOD for All Ages & Life States

Design professionals and housing experts discuss how TOD (Transit-Oriented Developments) can foster walkable, mixed-use transit-accessible communities and examine inclusive strategies for ensuring historically marginalized communities can benefit from affordable housing and public realm improvements near transit hubs.

Presenter:
Kate Smith, AIA, NCARB | SMR Architects, Andrew Grant Houston, AIA, NCARB, CPHD | House Cosmopolitan, Jim Bodoia, AIA, LEED AP | Perkins Eastman, Thatcher Imboden | Sound Transit

Social Housing: I-35 & Prop 1A, What’s Next?

This course explores Seattle’s recent creation of Social Housing Developer and examines case studies of successful implementation in the U.S. and abroad. With a well-documented housing supply and affordability crisis, Seattle has joined many metro areas across the county in passing legislation to build Social Housing as one solution. p>

Social housing addresses the need for true affordability across the income spectrum through constructing and acquiring housing that is permanently affordable and publicly owned in perpetuity. Social Housing is available to all incomes, permanently affordable and held as a public good in perpetuity by removing itself from the speculative market.

Presenter:
Michael Eliason | Larch Lab, Roberto Jiménez | Seattle Social Housing, Tiffani McCoy | House Our Neighbors

Platform MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%

This course explores strategies for providing affordable multi-family housing based on "platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%," a 4-volume publication by 5468796 Architecture. Johanna Hurme confronts challenges being faced by architects, builders, developers, and policymakers in their efforts to address housing supply gaps. Johanna’s keynote expands on two of the topics in this publication: Practice Ecosystem, describing 546’s approach to the architect’s role in challenging contexts, intersecting with politics, economics, civic governance, social activism, and other forms of cultural and scholarly research; and Toolkit, looking at a selection of the firm’s projects, uncovering a series of design and planning strategies developed over years of experience in the multi-family housing typology.

Presenter:
Johanna Hurme | Architect and Co-founder, 5468796 Architecture Inc.