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Racially Disparate Impacts in Housing – Undoing Past InjusticesSession 2A | Wednesday | 4:15 – 5:30 PM (PT)
The session will provide an overview of the major shift in the GMA housing goal and housing element requirements, as well as Commerce's recommended guidance to review and address racially disparate impacts in housing. Several jurisdictions have made considerable progress on their racially disparate impact analysis work. The session will include background on the housing element racially disparate impacts, exclusion, and displacement requirements, and will also include speakers who can share their work and experience on performing the racially disparate impacts, exclusion, and displacement analysis. This includes what they learned, including in one case a novel approach to using community members to engage in outreach to those who have not traditionally been part of the planning process. Commerce RDI resources and information available to jurisdictions as they proceed during their next periodic update will also be presented.
David Osaki
Washington State Department of Commerce
David Osaki works on middle housing issues with the Washington State Department of Commerce. He has served as Community Development Director for several Central Puget Sound cities including Fife, Monroe and Mukilteo. David has a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University and a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington and has served on planning commissions, a housing authority board, and a homeless encampment Citizen's Advisory Committee in the Puget Sound region. He has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners since 1986.
Alyssa Torrez
City of Tacoma Alyssa Torrez is a Senior Planner supporting the Home in Tacoma initiative as well as other long-range planning initiatives for the City of Tacoma. Before working in this position, she served a 3-year term on the City of Tacoma Planning Commission and worked in Real Estate Development with the Tacoma Housing Authority where she worked to bring community voices to affordable housing projects in Tacoma’s diverse Hilltop neighborhood. In addition to her work in affordable housing, Alyssa has extensive experience working on community engagement with PBS stations and local nonprofit and grassroots organizations. She holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University Fullerton in Communications and Public Relations and a Masters in Community Planning from the University of Washington Tacoma.  Chris PasinettiCity of Enumclaw Chris Pasinetti has 16 years of progressive planning experience in long-range and current planning. Chris has worked with the City of Enumclaw since 2014 and has been the Community Development Director since January 2016. Prior to Enumclaw, Chris worked with the city of Fife. Chris has worked for small cities with big city problems, housing affordability being one of them. With the recent Department of Commerce Grants for Middle-housing, the Enumclaw Team oversaw the development of the City’s Racially Disparate Impacts Report and regulations to address impacts within the city regarding housing affordability. Chris graduated in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from the University of Washington, Tacoma. Chris is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
 Elise KeimCity of Shoreline
Elise Keim is a Senior Planner with the City of Shoreline. She is a lifelong Washingtonian and has been lucky enough to serve as a planner for several jurisdictions in Western Washington. Her BA is in environmental policy from Western Washington University and her Master’s is in Urban Planning from University of Washington. Elise brings her experience in code writing and implementation to her policy work to ensure a community’s vision becomes reality. During her career as a planner her areas of focus have included commercial development, environmentally critical areas, and housing. Growing in her practice Elise is continuing to learn what it means to be actively anti-racist in a profession that gatekeeps the future of cities.
 Hennry JenningsSnohomish County Planning and Developement Services Henry Jennings is a planner in the Long Range Planning Division of Snohomish County. Henry has worked on updating the Capital Facilities and Housing elements of Snohomish County’s comprehensive plan, as well as drafting the new Climate Change and Tribal Coordination elements. Since the Spring of 2022, Henry has worked on numerous research and policy writing tasks associated with these elements, and has also worked on Snohomish County’s public engagement team. Prior to working in long range planning, Henry worked in permitting for Snohomish and Island Counties. Henry has a BA and an MA in history from Central Washington University.
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