SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 120318

• Record No: CB 120318
• Version: 1
• Council Bill No: CB 120318
• Type: Ordinance (Ord)
• Status: Passed
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 5/24/2022
• Ordinance No: Ord 126588
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to appropriations for the Executive Department; amending Ordinance 126490, which adopted the 2022 Budget; changing appropriations and creating new positions in the Office of Housing; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
• Sponsors: Teresa Mosqueda
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Office of Housing Memo, 3. Signed Ordinance 126588, 4. Affidavit of Publication

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/26/2022	1	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
5/26/2022	1	Mayor	returned
5/26/2022	1	Mayor	Signed
5/26/2022	1	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
5/24/2022	1	City Council	passed	Pass
5/18/2022	1	Finance and Housing Committee	pass	Pass
5/3/2022	1	City Council	referred
4/28/2022	1	Finance and Housing Committee	postponed
4/25/2022	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
4/20/2022	1	City Clerk	sent for review
4/20/2022	1	Mayor	Mayor's leg transmitted to Council

CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to appropriations for the Executive Department; amending Ordinance 126490, which adopted the 2022 Budget; changing appropriations and creating new positions in the Office of Housing; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
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WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council are committed to ensuring everyone in Seattle has access to safe, stable, and affordable homes; and
WHEREAS, affordable housing helps to address The City of Seattle's long history of displacement and segregation caused by government-supported colonialism, racial covenants, and redlining leading to the restriction of where Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) may live and purchase homes and disparities in access to affordable homes, as well as education, living-wage employment, healthy environment, and transportation; and
WHEREAS, 22,850 renters earning less than 30 percent of Area Median Income and 6,535 renters earning between 30 percent and 50 percent of Area Median Income are severely cost-burdened, paying more than 50 percent of their income for rent in Seattle.1 An additional 17,000 renters earning up to 50 percent of Area Median Income in Seattle are moderately cost-burdened, paying 30 to 50 percent of their income for rent; and
WHEREAS, there is an estimated shortage of 26,620 rental units affordable and available to renter households at or below 30 percent of Area Median Income and the King County Regional Affordable Housing Task Force found that 156,000 affordable homes were needed immediately, and another 88,000 homes by 2040, to ensure that no low-income households were cost-burdened in the region; and
WHEREAS, in King County 40,800 people experienced homelessness at some point in 2019 and 45,300 people experienced homelessness at some point in 2020 and were living in unsafe conditions outside and in shelters in our region, and affordable housing and permanent supportive hous...