With inventory down 25 percent, home values and rents both increasing, and more people moving to the region, the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties said the local housing market is struggling with a housing affordability crisis.

King and Snohomish counties continue to have less than one month's supply of housing inventory for sale; median home prices are up 14 percent year-over-year in both counties during February.

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