{"id":19052,"date":"2024-04-29T15:21:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:26:58","slug":"award-winning-project-spurred-by-nar-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/homepage\/blog\/award-winning-project-spurred-by-nar-grant","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Project Spurred by NAR Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 Spokane REALTORS\u00ae<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2022, census data showed that housing inventory in Washington state was the lowest in the country, and the city of Spokane, population 229,000, had only a two- to three-week supply of homes. To help address the crisis, Spokane REALTORS\u00ae implemented a National Association of REALTORS\u00ae grant to support an objective assessment of market conditions and roadblocks, plus a practical plan for moving forward.<\/p>\n

After a strenuous application process, a Counselors of Real Estate Consulting Corps team\u2014with experts in housing, economics and policymaking\u2014 conducted more than 30 interviews with Spokane lawmakers, developers and other housing stakeholders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese stakeholders became vested partners in the recommendations moved forward by the group,\u201d says Eric Johnson, 2020 Spokane REALTORS\u00ae president.<\/p>\n

The CRE Consulting Corps effort resulted in the 89-page Action Steps to Increase Spokane\u2019s Housing Supply report and a regional housing summit for stakeholders. It also laid the foundation for the city\u2019s Building Opportunity and Choices for All (BOCA) interim ordinance, which put in effect zoning changes that included allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes citywide, allowing townhomes on all residential lots, and reducing vehicle parking requirements, building height increases and more.<\/p>\n

The city of Spokane recently earned a 2023 Smart Communities Award from Gov. Jay Inslee, and the interim ordinance has since become a permanent project called Building Opportunity for Housing.<\/p>\n

The CRE Consulting Corps project was funded by Spokane REALTORS\u00ae, Washington REALTORS\u00ae, Spokane Home Builders Association, and a Housing Opportunity Grant from the REALTOR\u00ae Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CRE Consulting Corps project likely added to the body of work that propelled this zoning project forward,\u201d says Darin Watkins, governmental affairs director at Spokane REALTORS\u00ae. \u201cREALTORS\u00ae here believe this project is critical to our future. The backing by the REALTOR\u00ae Party played a key role in helping us defend the rights of housing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds Tiffany Claxton, RCE, Spokane REALTORS\u00ae CEO, \u201cIn addition to infill opportunities allowing for multifamily units in the city, a record number of new residential construction permits have been one of the key developments along with the townhome regulations, which were a specific recommendation of the CRE Consulting Corps report.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spokane REALTORS\u00ae recommends any association facing housing opportunity issues to enlist the services of the CRE Consulting Corps as an additional resource and advocate for their communities, cities and municipalities.<\/p>\n

Read the original article in the Spring 2024 edition of AExperience<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2022, census data showed that housing inventory in Washington state was the lowest in the country, and the city of Spokane, population 229,000, had only a two- to three-week supply of homes. To help address the crisis, Spokane REALTORS\u00ae implemented a National Association of REALTORS\u00ae grant to support an objective assessment of market conditions and roadblocks, plus a practical plan for moving forward.","protected":false},"author":20974,"featured_media":19053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realtorparty.realtor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}