Drafter
Clerk 03/23/2017
Title
AN ORDINANCE imposing subject to voter approval an additional sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent, as authorized in RCW 82.14.530, to fund construction of affordable housing and facilities providing housing-related services solely for eligible households that include specific population groups with income at or below sixty percent of the median income; or to fund the construction of mental and behavioral health-related facilities; or to fund the operations and maintenance costs of new units of affordable housing and facilities where housing-related programs are provided, or newly constructed evaluation and treatment centers; to fund the operation, delivery or evaluation of mental and behavioral health treatment programs and services or housing-related services; and including provisions for the governance and implementation for the use of eligible expenditures and authorizing the repeal of the tax under specific circumstances, and providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County at a special election to be held in King County on August 1, 2017, a proposition approving the sales and use tax imposed by this ordinance.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. At the end of 2016, the median home value in King County was five hundred twenty thousand dollars, more than three hundred thousand dollars above the national median.
2. King County home values increased more than fourteen percent between December 2015 and 2016, a rate of increase more than double the national rate.
3. At the end of 2016, the median monthly rental price in King County was two thousand two hundred dollars, more than six hundred dollars above the national median.
4. These housing price levels have resulted in nearly three hundred thousand households in King County spending more than thirty percent of their incomes on housing and have made it difficult for many people to secure any type of housing.
5. During 2016, nearly ten thousand people...
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