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EVERETT 2044 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6/17/2025 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />HOUSING ELEMENT <br /> Page 60 <br />HO-43 Employ effective strategies that support and enforce the Fair Housing Act’s statutory mandate <br />to affirmatively further fair housing. <br />HO-44 Institute educational program and protections for tenants on tenant rights, eviction <br />protections, and assistance programs. <br />HO-45 Invest in historically underserved areas to enhance housing affordability, stability, and <br />community amenities. This commitment ensures that current residents can thrive in place, <br />benefiting from improved services, infrastructure, and amenities, while also creating <br />opportunities for public-private partnerships to address long-standing investment gaps. <br />HO-46 Regulations, policies, and procedures should minimize disproportionate impacts on, or <br />displacement of, marginalized populations. <br />HO-47 Acknowledge and work to overcome Everett’s role in historical events and actions that have led <br />to housing disparities and discrimination and ensure equitable outcomes in housing in all city <br />processes, procedures and regulations while working to undo past harms. <br />HO-48 Minimize all resident’s exposure to both natural and manmade environmental hazards and <br />ensure that the city’s housing policies and regulations do not perpetuate historical patterns of <br />environmental racism. <br />HO-49 Proactively prevent displacement of marginalized populations and communities due to <br />economic factors, major planning projects, or capital improvement projects. <br />HO-50 Proactively review city policies, practices, and regulations to prevent housing disparities and <br />discrimination. <br />HO-51 Implement community preference strategies to support residents at risk of displacement, <br />promoting neighborhood stability and equitable access to housing for vulnerable populations. <br />5-YEAR HOUSING ACTIONS <br />Action HO-1: Develop and implement a comprehensive housing finance strategy that supports and <br />facilitates anti-displacement efforts and development of market rate and low-income affordable <br />housing. Examples include use of housing trust fund, the Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE) Program, <br />housing levy, and credit enhancements <br />Action HO-2: Develop a land banking program to acquire and manage surplus and acquired properties, <br />and to repurpose abandoned or foreclosed properties for housing and community needs. <br />Action HO-3: Expand the Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE) Program to further support development of <br />affordable and environmentally sustainable housing projects. <br />Action HO-4: Develop a permit ready housing program. <br />Action HO-5: Support workforce development programs that promote the cost-effective production of <br />housing. <br />Action HO-6: Implement a mobile home park zoning overlay.