<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2TmGYS_1FTzAkhX00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2TmGYS_1FTzAkhX00" width="1763" height="1175" ><figcaption>Courtesy of Stefan Ghintuiala via Unsplash</figcaption></figure>The Washington State Department of Commerce announced today that it’s awarded a total of $475,000 to eight local government entities — Pierce County; the Snohomish County Health Department; and the cities of Tacoma, Bellevue, Lacey, Ridgefield, Tumwater, and Yakima — in a bid to quicken the residential-permitting process.The funds will, according to a Commerce press release, go toward updated permitting software and digital application systems and AI tools that will purportedly help check whether an application is done before it’s turned in."We urgently need more housing, and we need to make it easier to build,” said Commerce Interim Director Sarah Clifthorne in the release.The release noted that there is more demand for the grant Commerce is offering than there are resources: There were some 60 applications requesting a total of around $3.7 million.The funding is part of Commerce’s larger efforts to address their recent projections that Washington needs to build more than 1 million homes by 2044 to accommodate forecasted population growth in the state.“These grants will help communities speed up permitting review and help get more homes built,” Clifthorne said.</div></body>

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The Washington State Department of Commerce announced today that it’s awarded a total of $475,000 to eight local government entities — Pierce County; the Snohomish County Health Department; and the cities of Tacoma, Bellevue, Lacey, Ridgefield, Tumwater, and Yakima — in a bid to quicken the residential-permitting process.

Commerce Grants $475K to Streamline Housing-Permitting Process

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The Washington State Department of Commerce announced today that it’s awarded a total of $475,000 to eight local government entities — Pierce County; the S

Commerce Grants $475K to Streamline Housing-Permitting Process

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