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Oct 2018
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The Ways and Means of Decreasing Housing...

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Marty Kooistra is the Executive Director of the Housing Development Consortium for Seattle and King County. In this interview, Marty shares ways we can decrease housing costs and why we need an exponential solution for the housing crisis.

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