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1. Increasing Housing Variety Everett Housing Action Plan 10 <br /> <br />Figure 2. Prototype Housing Designs for Evaluation and Discussion. <br /> <br />Source: MAKERS, 2020. <br />Housing Needs Assessment and Prior City Work <br /> The Housing Needs Assessment (Appendix A) indicates that Everett’s housing supply is not <br />meeting the demand at all economic levels especially for low-income households. There are fewer <br />opportunities for homeownership or alternative housing types available and some of the barriers <br />include housing affordability. Lack of affordable options contribute to the number of cost <br />burdened households. An analysis of cost burdened conditions in Everett is shown in Appendix F – <br />Affordability and Displacement. <br /> On November 4, 2020, the Everett City Council adopted a new Unified Development Code (Rethink <br />Zoning). Ordinance No. 3774-20 which included a number of provisions to implement and support <br />the housing affordability recommendations adopted by the legislature in ESHB 1923. Based on the <br />housing needs assessment, city staff had initially planned to incorporate more in-depth changes to <br />single-family zoning districts into Rethink Zoning to permit more housing options in more places. <br />COVID-19 and the need to conduct additional community engagement activities around this issue,