2025 was a year of tremendous impacts and deep challenges. Yet, working together, the HDC movement made powerful and substantive change—moving the needle towards our collective goal that all people throughout King County are able to live with dignity in safe, healthy, and affordable homes. Read on to learn about some of these incredible accomplishments we made together.
In 2025…
We stabilized and secured funding for affordable housing throughout King County and Washington State, including a record $605 million for the State Housing Trust Fund and $100 million for the Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program.
Through our leadership in the Complete Communities Coalition, we advocated for, and won, critical improvements to the Seattle Comprehensive Plan, which was adopted by the Seattle City Council on December 16. Also in Seattle, we extended the design review holiday with an interim extension for 6 months.
We led the passage of Bellevue’s most ambitious ever Comprehensive Plan and contributed to Comprehensive Plan updates throughout other Eastside cities.
Through the Eastside Affordable Housing Coalition and Eastside Housing Roundtable, we drove transformative change in Bellevue’s Wilburton neighborhood, passing mandatory inclusionary zoning—one of the region’s biggest housing growth opportunities with 2,219 total units in the pipeline today.
We supported the passage of and pushed for key housing legislation during 2025’s impactful ‘Year of Housing 2.0’, including:
- Affordable Homeownership Insurance Study
- Condominium Reform
- Covenant Homeownership Account Trailer Bill
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Foreclosure Mediation
- Expanding Funding for Homelessness Services and the Covenant Homeownership Program
- Historic Landmarks
- Housing Accountability Act
- Housing Court Commissioners
- Lot Splitting
- Parking Reform
- Rent Stabilization
We kept our work moving forward to diversify the affordable housing sector by expanding the number of BIPOC participants in our Leadership Development Survey Course to over 65% of recent cohort members.
We expanded our work to improve the sustainability of affordable housing through our Decarbonize Affordable Housing Now Learn at Lunch series, Exemplary Building tours, and multiple site pilot projects for decarbonization and removal/replacement of toxic flooring.
We led the development and management of the 2025 BHI Homeownership Policy Framework, which included 23 state bills across four key categories to increase Black homeownership.
We launched our Racial Equity Commitment, Early Adopter Cohort, bringing together fourteen organizations—ranging from construction, architecture, and government to housing developers and operators.
The future we aim to build, one wherein all people can live with dignity in safe, healthy, and affordable homes across King County, is only possible through our collective effort and unbreakable resolve. We’re in this together.