Housing

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  April 12, 2025Homelessness, Housing

  #108: Out of town corporate single family home ownership

  I take a look back at a couple of blog posts I’ve written in the last couple of years about corporate home ownership in Thurston County and include some updates […]

• February 15, 2024General Interest, Housing

  #104: New City Council member Robert Vanderpool

  Robert Vanderpool just started his job on the Olympia City Council. So, to get to know Olympia’s new policy-maker, we asked him some questions about himself, about where he’s coming […]

• January 10, 2024Climate Change, Downtown, Housing

  #103: The Multifamily Tax Exemption and You

  We conducted a couple of interviews about how the Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE) impacts the city in terms of growth, housing affordability and finances. We sat down with Darian Lightfoot […]

• August 23, 2023Homelessness, Housing

  #100: What is Olympia doing about homelessness?

  In the primary part of this episode, we visit with Darian Lightfoot, who is leading the City of Olympia’s response to the homelessness crisis. She talks about the One Olympia […]

• June 21, 2023Downtown, General Interest, Housing, Legislature, Transportation

  #99 Where are all the state offices going?

  In the first half of this episode, we sit down with Yvonne Knutson (Office of Financial Management) and Maurice Perigo (Department of Enterprise Services) to talk about how state offices […]

• May 29, 2023Housing, Legislature

  #98: Sine Die with a Housing Twist

  Today we’re doing our traditional Sine Die (end of the legislative sesssion) episode, but with a Housing Twist. The Olympia Standard sits down with Representative Jessica Bateman (D-Olympia) to talk […]

• March 19, 2023Housing, Legislature

  #97 Housing history in Olympia and setting the stage for the state legislature

  The state legislature is about to act on statewide zoning reform that would adopt much the same policy that we’ve been passing in Olympia for years now. To take a […]

• August 6, 2022Downtown, General Interest, Housing

  #95 Olympia Strong and building an economically resilient city

  You can lend your voice to Olympia Strong now by filling out the city’s survey here. Download the episode here.

• June 15, 2020Housing

  #65: A Landlord, A Tenant Lawyer, and Rental Housing

  With 53% of our population living in rental housing, Olympia is a majority renter community. On top of that, there are far too few rental homes in our city, putting […]

• April 29, 2018Housing

  #13: Kathy McCormick and the Missing Middle

  We recorded our next episode with Kathy McCormick, retired planner turned housing activist. We talked about the history of growth management in our area, where we are lacking in achieving the […]