Seattle Shelves 80% MHA Fee Cut as Builders Say 30 Stalled Projects and 6,000 Homes Hang in the Balance

A nonprofit coalition's abrupt reversal killed the summer timeline for Seattle's proposed two-year Mandatory Housing Affordability fee reduction, stranding a compromise that market-rate builders spent four months negotiating and that they say would unlock roughly 6,000 permitted-but-frozen housing units across the city. The deal was done. Then it wasn't. For four months, a coalition of […]