Seattle invests in affordable housing

The Seattle City Council approved the city’s 2021 budget with reductions to the police budget, though not as much as activists sought amid mass demonstrations against ...

The new investments total $65 million, which Microsoft says will create more than 1,000 new affordable housing units in the Seattle region. To reduce rents in existing market-rate housing in Bellevue ...

King County Equity Now (KCEN), a Black-led coalition at the forefront of Seattle's movement to defund ... Mercer Megablock money earmarked for affordable housing development, which Durkan proposed ...

Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors ... is tackling some of the region’s thorniest issues: affordable housing, transportation struggles and educational inequities.

A longtime Seattle commercial property owner says ... found that 94% homeless people said they would move inside affordable housing were it available. Losing a job was the most cited reason ...

“This is poised to be a turning point for the level of investment in affordable housing ... between racial equity goals and investing in housing.” The Department of Housing and Urban ...

Some Seattle City Council members want to buy a hotel to shelter the homeless and then turn that hotel into affordable housing units ... if Durkan gets her way—investing $100 million in BIPOC ...

He has also co-founded OZ Navigator which is focused on investing in Opportunity ... and led him directly to the affordable housing sector. Before coming to Seattle in 2008 to lead Habitat for ...

low-opportunity neighborhoods to replace the lost units or pay a fee into the city’s affordable housing fund. In 2016, the city released a growth and equity analysis of each Seattle neighborhood ...