Ben Stuckart argues during a 2018 City Council meeting that the city needs to grow "up" if it's not willing to grow "out."

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Today, the Spokane Low Income Housing Consortium announced that Stuckart would be their next director.



“Ben brings a wealth of knowledge to our membership organization,” Edie Rice-Sauer, current board chair, said in a statement.

e'll be doing consulting work on the side. He says that the

Spokane Low Income Housing Consortium approached him recently about the job.







"For our failing housing stock and for our need to keep people's rents low and our need to get people off the street, one thing that the experts in the fields have told me, and in all my research, is that housing is the undergirding solution," Stuckart says.







, a nonprofit with a broad mission to help low-income people, including by helping them maintain housing



"I do understand housing," Stuckart insisted last year during the mayoral campaign. "I'll go down fighting that I understand the housing market very well, and I'm doing as much as I possibly can."



During last year's mayoral campaign, Stuckart lamented that, because he was trying to differentiate himself from his father in his early years on the council, he was slow to see the importance of the housing debate.



During last year's mayoral campaign, Stuckart lamented that, because he was trying to differentiate himself from his father in his early years on the council, he was slow to see the importance of the housing debate.

Stuckart, in an interview last week, said the position will only be part-time, and that hStuckart's father, Larry, was the director of SNAP