Housing and Homes: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 81 measures from the 2025-26 session under Housing and Homes. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1010 · Affordable housing, authorizing accessory dwelling units in rural counties
- HB 1015 · Energy efficiency, permitting cities and counties to require labels for advertised residences
- HB 1022 · Homes for heroes act, creating pilot program to provide down payment assistance for certain professions
- HB 1061 · Parking, allowing residential property owners to park across their own driveway
- HB 1075 · Affordable housing, modifying housing authority requirements
- HB 1096 · Lots, allowing residential lot splitting
- HB 1108 · Housing cost driver analysis, establishing legislative task force
- HB 1164 · Development, expanding urban growth boundaries for
- HB 1191 · Manufactured homes, modifying status as real property
- HB 1345 · Detached accessory dwelling units, allowing outside urban growth areas
- HB 1353 · Detached accessory dwelling units, self-certification
- HB 1358 · Manufactured/mobile home communities, additional notification of opportunity to compete to purchase requirements
- HB 1365 · Manufactured/mobile home rental assistance program, establishing
- HB 1403 · Condominiums, modifying construction
- HB 1443 · Home on wheels, permitting on residential lots and barring common interest community prohibitions
- HB 1464 · Home equity sharing agreements, new chapter
- HB 1491 · Transit-oriented development, promoting including restriction on common interest communities
- HB 1500 · Common interest communities, modifying sale requirements including resale certificates
- HB 1501 · Common interest communities, owner inquiries and responses
- HB 1542 · Senior independent housing, new chapter including rights of residents
- HB 1687 · Social housing public development authority, treating as housing authority
- HB 1694 · Affordable housing, allowing use of local real estate sales tax revenue
- HB 1696 · Covenant homeownership program, modifying special purpose credit programs
- HB 1717 · Affordable housing, allowing local sales/use tax remittance program for qualifying projects
- HB 1732 · Single-family residential property, restricting ownership by business and investment entities
- HB 1763 · Affordable housing, creating essential affordable housing local assistance account
- HB 1768 · Manufactured housing communities, restrictions on business and investment entity ownership
- HB 1808 · Affordable housing, new chapter establishing affordable homeownership revolving loan fund program
- HB 1840 · Middle housing, permitting certain authorizations
- HB 1859 · Affordable housing, modifying density bonus threshold for property owned by religious organizations
- HB 1867 · Affordable housing, allowing cities to tax real estate sales for affordable housing purposes
- HB 1907 · Affordable housing, application revenues from tax on self-storage facilities
- HB 1974 · Affordable housing, establishing land bank grant program
- HB 2118 · Common interest communities, limiting more restrictive covenants
- HB 2153 · State-funded down payment assistance program restrictions
- HB 2227 · Affordable housing, modifying self-help housing as ownership housing
- HB 2236 · Housing finance commission modifications
- HB 2265 · Extreme heat protections for tenants, including eviction restrictions and limiting prohibitions of cooling devices
- HB 2304 · Condominium implied warranties of quality alternatives
- HB 2354 · Common interest communities, modifying governing documents
- HB 2359 · Affordable housing, rehabilitating affordable housing as allowable use for certain revenues
- HB 2527 · Obligations for private developers receiving federal low-income housing tax credit
- HB 2559 · Affordable housing, levying lodging tax for various housing purposes
- HB 2646 · Common interest communities, notice requirement for bringing action for violations
- HR 4625 · Chinese Americans
- SB 5129 · Common interest communities, modifying governing documents, community size, charging stations, et al.
- SB 5249 · Kit homes, permitting in areas not zoned for permanent housing to provide emergency housing
- SB 5298 · Manufactured/mobile home communities, additional notification of opportunity to compete to purchase requirements
- SB 5332 · Home on wheels, permitting on residential lots and barring common interest community prohibitions
- SB 5413 · Detached accessory dwelling units, allowing outside of urban growth areas
- SB 5469 · Landlords, restricting activities with service providers including prohibiting coordination
- SB 5470 · Detached accessory dwelling units, allowing outside of urban growth areas
- SB 5471 · Middle housing, permitting certain authorizations
- SB 5496 · Single-family residential property, restricting ownership by business and investment entities
- SB 5552 · Affordable housing, requiring building codes for kit homes
- SB 5553 · Affordable housing, expanding sales/use tax deferral to include new multifamily construction
- SB 5576 · Affordable housing, creating essential affordable housing local assistance account
- SB 5580 · Corporate homeowner registration program, establishing to register entities owning many housing units\
- SB 5587 · Affordable housing, funding priorities
- SB 5591 · Affordable housing, allowing sales/use tax remittance program for qualifying projects
- SB 5604 · Affordable housing, multiple-unit dwellings in station areas
- SB 5612 · SEPA, exemption for multiunit housing
- SB 5615 · Local project review, modifying permit applications
- SB 5647 · Affordable housing, modifying self-help housing as ownership housing
- SB 5659 · Housing shortage, new title for eliminating each county, city, and town's proportional share
- SB 5711 · Affordable housing, application revenues from tax on self-storage facilities
- SB 5729 · Local project review, modifying permit process and excluding certain permits
- SB 5747 · Affordable housing, allowing construction according to older codes
- SB 5753 · Task force on public housing, establishing to consider funding and affordability
- SB 5755 · Redevelopment, incentivizing use of commercial properties
- SB 5776 · American dream homes, tax and permitting incentives
- SB 5884 · Reduced affordability requirements for underutilized property sales and use tax deferral
- SB 5885 · Affordable housing, modifying density bonus threshold for property owned by religious organizations
- SB 5938 · 5943
- SB 6015 · Permit-ready building plans and model ordinances to be published
- SB 6018 · Housing finance commission modifications
- SB 6027 · Affordable housing, rehabilitating affordable housing as allowable use for certain revenues
- SB 6028 · Affordable housing, mixed-income development revolving loan fund created
- SB 6054 · Common interest communities, fire-hardened building material prohibitions banned
- SB 6167 · State-funded down payment assistance program restrictions
- SB 6214 · Affordable housing, establishing land bank grant program
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.