Jessica Bateman is a former planning commissioner and former member of the Olympia City Council. She currently represents the cities of Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey in the Washington State Legislature.

She joined us on the pod as a follow-up to our conversation last episode with Joe Tovar about “middle housing”. She talked in-depth about why we need regional solutions and why cities fighting against HB 1782 are being counter-productive.

She also makes a convincing plea to self-styled conservatives and libertarians about how the status-quo actually violates their property rights.

Housing is a deeply important issue to our community and one we’ve returned and returned to repeatedly on this show:

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