Vision, leadership and innovation in housing and community development

For more than a dozen years, King County Executive Ron Sims has championed regional efforts to develop affordable, workforce and supportive housing, end homelessness, improve blighted neighborhoods, create opportunities for home ownership, balance the demand for housing with the need to protect our environment, and address economic and social justice inequities.

Executive Sims has done this work in partnership with many others – whether business leaders or housing authorities, legislators or homeless individuals. King County has pulled together stakeholders from a variety of perspectives on any given issue to resolve differences and find common ground in order to address the priority at hand – preserving and creating affordable and workforce housing and a healthy place to live.

Providing leadership to implement needed change, commitment to helping those most in need, innovation to create new and different ways of doing business, and fostering the sense of community that makes King County such a great place to live, County Executive Ron Sims has provided the stewardship to achieve extraordinary progress in the arenas of housing and community development.

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