How will Everett's comprehensive plan work in Casino Road?
EVERETT — In the bathtub. Under the kitchen table. When 11 people squeeze into a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment due to the high cost of rent, these are some of the places they are forced to sleep at night.
Even still, that family in the Casino Road neighborhood of South Everett struggles to make ends meet, said Yajaira Avalos, who shared the family’s story at an April 16 City Council meeting in Everett. Their story is one example of the effects a ballooning housing affordability crisis has on Snohomish County residents.
“Just thinking about raising the cost of their housing would be like shooting them in the foot,” Avalos said at the meeting.
Avalos was one of nearly a dozen community members from the neighborhood who spoke at the Apirl 16 meeting. An interpreter translated many of their testimonies from Spanish to English as they advocated for the city to include affordable housing and anti-displacement policies as part of its periodic comprehensive plan update.
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