Governmental Affairs Radar
February 8, 2023
Please take 30 seconds
and ask your Legislators to make the 2023 session a session where housing is the top priority.
We know that housing inventory and affordability are at crisis levels in Washington. 

We need your help to encourage our State Legislators to make Housing the top priority in the upcoming session. 

Please use the form on this page to send a message to your state legislator, urging them to make 2023 the year where housing is a top priority!

Washington REALTORS® is working in a coalition on a number of housing bills including:
  • encouraging more condominium and townhome development, 
  • allowing ADUs in rural areas, 
  • allowing the option of duplexes and triplexes in single-family neighborhoods. 

Please take 30 seconds and ask your Legislators to make the 2023 session a session where housing is the top priority.
Home for Heroes
Lawmakers are asking for our support for a new bill called Home for Heroes, HB 1633.

This would create a home-ownership down payment assistance pilot program for former or current military, police and fire officers, nurses, social workers, dispatchers, etc.
 
Washington REALTORS® is in support of this bill
 
To add your support, please click on this link https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/House
 
Under Committee, use the drop-down to select Housing and then under Meetings, select 02/07/23 4:00 PM. Select agenda item HB 1633 Home for Heroes Program and then “I would like my position noted for the legislative record”. 
Olympia Legislative Session Monitor
WR and SR staff are tracking several bills with impacts on the real estate business as they move through the legislative process.

Find out the latest information online here:
Last day of session (Sine Die): April 24, 2023.