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Featured Press Releases and Coverage

08/29/10
Seattle Times
Invisible Families
"Invisible Families" is a multi-part series by The Seattle Times done in collaboration with our online news partners. These partners, who represent some of the best hyperlocal and niche Web sites in the region, have contributed their own stories below, providing unique views on family homelessness in their neighborhoods. Read more.

08/20/10
EP Magazine
King County Housing Authority Starts $1.7M Stimulus Project
Work has started on $1.7 million in energy efficiency upgrades and building envelope renovations to Briarwood, a 70-unit public housing complex for seniors and persons with disabilities in Shoreline, Wash. Read more.

08/17/10
KPLU
$800M Public Housing Portfolio In Peril
Nearly a billion dollars.  That’s how much money Washington state has spent over the past twenty years to build low-income housing across the state.  Read more.

08/16/10
Seattle Times
Website rates your neighborhood's walkability and your commute costs
Herst acknowledges that many of the most walkable neighborhoods are also the least affordable. Read more.

08/08/10
Issaquah Press
King County extends aid to at-risk and homeless veterans
King County leaders took a step last week to help veterans scale barriers to housing and employment, and to sustain self-sufficiency. Read more.

08/03/10
West Seattle Blog
Transitional Resources announces Avalon Place groundbreaking date
Last December, the project finished Design Review – now, construction’s about to start. Read more.

08/02/10
Seattle Times
11 Seattle homeless shelters may close soon
Hundreds more homeless people in Seattle could be sleeping on the streets this week if a nonprofit housing organization closes 11 of its 15 shelters for lack of funds. Read more.

07/27/10
Crosscut
Upside of a downturn: new neighborhood housing for the low-income
After the recession killed plans for a boutique hotel in the U District, homeless advocates scrambled to acquire the site for low-income housing. Read more.

07/21/10
Seattle Medium
HUD to investigate mortgage lenders who discriminate against expectant mothers and new parents
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it will launch multiple investigations into the lending practices of certain mortgage lenders to determine if they illegally denied families mortgages because the mother is pregnant or a family member is experiencing a short-term disability. Read more.

07/16/10
West Seattle Herald
White Center's Seola Gardens awarded $9 million for Senior Housing
Providence Health and Services and the King County Housing Authority have been awarded $9 million to build affordable housing for low income seniors at the companion property to the existing Greenbridge near White Center. Read more.

07/15/10
Renton Reporter
PATTERSON AND NORMAN: Affordable housing is regional problem
While it is difficult to look beyond the current economic crisis, with unemployment hovering near double digits and home foreclosures continuing, this cycle will eventually end, and growth in the Puget Sound region will resume. Read more.

07/09/10
King County Executive News
King County, Seattle receive nearly $1 million in new federal homeless assistance grants; 2010-2011 award total for region exceeds $21 million
The City of Seattle and King County have been awarded nearly $1 million to support the operating costs for two new homeless housing projects opening in 2010, bringing the total for 2010-2011 federal homeless assistance awards to over $21 million for the region. Read more.

06/23/10
Real Change News
Obama’s public housing plan needs rewiring, critics say
In the past 15 years, more than 150,000 units of publicly owned low-income housing have been torn down across the nation. Read more.

06/23/10
PR Newswire
Penguin Windows Teams With Habitat for Humanity to Provide Windows for Two New Local Housing Projects
Penguin Windows has made a major donation by providing over 70 windows for new Habitat for Humanity housing projects in the Seattle area. Read more.

06/11/10
Progressive Railroading
Sound Transit completes first mixed-use development
Today, Seattle’s Sound Transit is scheduled to open its first public-private transit-oriented development project, the Korean Women’s Association’s Senior City housing facility, at the Federal Way Transit Center. Read more.

06/07/10
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Changes: How will light rail transform Capitol Hill?
Seattle's Capitol Hill will be a place where people can board Puget Sound's expanded light-rail line seven years from now. Read more.

06/02/10
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homeless shelters: A way out? Or holding tanks that keep people in a homeless state?
When people are homeless, they are often under a roof – but it's never certain how long they can stay there. Read more.

06/01/10
Issaquah Press
New Habitat project to break ground in Renton Highlands
When completed, the project will have eight buildings and up to 41 units available for families making 60 percent or below the area’s median income, said Tom Granger, executive director for Habitat For Humanity of East King County. Read more.

05/26/10
AARP
Seattle's backyard cottages make a dent in housing need
Backyard cottages are a promising way to address the need for affordable housing without diminishing the character of urban neighborhoods, and they're creating more options for families who want to live near an elderly parent or adult child. Read more.

05/22/10
Knox News
Housing lessons for Knox: Other cities learn key to helping homeless is educating the public
Permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people has been in place for years in cities across the country - from Seattle, Wash., to Fairfax, Va., to Denver. Read more.

05/21/10
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
Former homeless veteran takes message to Capitol Hill
A former Kennewick resident was on Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify about ways to fight homelessness among the nation's veterans. Read more.

05/17/10
Earthtimes
King County Housing Authority Achieves Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program Milestone – Reaching 10,000 Voucher Mark
Thanks to continued growth of the King County Housing Authority’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, the number of low-income households in King County receiving rental assistance has more than doubled in the last decade. Read more.

05/13/10
BusinessWeek
When Counties Don't Stop Governing at the Border
To compete for funding—and save their budgets—municipalities are doing the unthinkable: Working together.  Read more.

05/12/10
PR Newswire
Housewarming drive to help rising number of women and children across Seattle escaping domestic violence
Once people are housed, choices have to be made between buying dressers and beds to sleep on, and having enough groceries for the week. Read more.

05/11/10
Issaquah Press
Seattle Storm hoopsters dish an assist at Habitat project
In an effort to draw attention to the housing challenges facing low-income families, Habitat for Humanity has teamed up with WNBA team Seattle Storm to build a home in Issaquah. Read more.

04/30/10
KUOW News
A Quiet Crisis
Affordable housing is tough enough to find when you're young and healthy. Read more.

04/14/10
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Federal Funding for New Low Income Apartments in Lake City
This year Washington State received 50.5 million from the US Department of Urban Housing in Hope VI funds. 10.5 million of these funds to went to Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) for a new mixed income building in Lake City. Read more.

04/11/10
TMC News
Cantwell Fighting for Extension of Affordable Housing Program to meet Regional Needs, Create Jobs
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) stressed the need for more affordable rental housing in Washington state, which not only provide homes but create construction jobs and stimulate local economies. Read more.

04/05/10
Seattle Times
Seattle Children's growth plan gets City Council's OK
After two years of conflict and compromise, Seattle Children's hospital got the go-ahead from the City Council Monday for a major expansion of its campus on Sand Point Way Northeast. Read more.

04/02/10
Newcastle News
Council OKs budget cuts that create surplus
At its March 16 regular meeting, the City Council approved an $186,000 cut to the operating budget. Read more.

03/30/10
Bellevue Reporter
Housing group to build project for veterans in Bellevue
St. Andrew’s Housing Group (SAHG) will break ground April 5 on Andrew’s Glen, a new 40-unit affordable, permanent supportive housing development in Bellevue targeted to homeless veterans and other low-income individuals and families. Read more.

03/25/10
LoanSafe
HUD Releases Groundbreaking Study on Costs of First-Time Homelessness for Individuals and Families
Two additional studies look at life after transitional housing and access to mainstream benefits. Read more.

03/24/10
Seattle Medium
Legislature Passes Washington Works Housing Act of 2010
Nothing is dead until the final gavel falls could be the mantra for several bills that had apparently lost their pulse a week and a half ago, and were brought back to life in the Special Legislative Session. Read more.

03/23/10
Seattle Post Intelligencer
McGinn names interim director for Housing Office
Rick Hooper has been named by Mayor Mike McGinn as the new interim director of the city's Office of Housing. He replaces the previous interim director. Read more.

03/19/10
Olympia Newswire
Take 2 To Save GAU: House Proposes New Deal for Disability Lifeline
First a deal was on, then it was off. Now the House has come up with yet another version of a bill that it believes the Senate will pass to keep the state’s General Assistance-Unemployable program going — minus what is now a cut of 3,000 to 4,000 recipients. Read more.

03/17/10
Real Change News
Yesler Terrace moving east
A Seattle Housing Authority manager said last week that redevelopment plans for Yesler Terrace, a nearly 70-year-old public housing community that SHA owns on First Hill, may be moving east of Boren Avenue, beyond the boundary of today’s Yesler Terrace. Read more.

03/15/10
Bellevue Reporter
KITH luncheon to feature businessman's story
Not so very long ago, Richard LeMieux was a successful businessman. Read more.

03/11/10
Auburn Reporter
Auburn-Kent bus tour pitches more affordable housing
“I’ve come a long way, and I have the Multi-Service Center to thank for that,” the woman told the busload of officials on the Affordable Housing Opportunity Bus Tour in Kent and Auburn put on by the Housing Development Consortium, a Seattle-based non-profit agency. Read more.

02/08/10
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Kent homeless count yields telling results
One night every January for the past three years, Kent resident Cynthia Tanis takes a last peek at her kids, bundles herself up and heads out to the streets of Kent as part of the One Night Count, an annual event designed to provide a snapshot of the city's homeless population. Read more.

02/08/10
USA Today
HUD promotes Obama’s pitch for sustainable communities
Every federal agency seems to have a role in helping President Obama create a clean energy economy. Read more.

02/08/10
Publicola
McGinn to Meet with Advocates about Future of Housing Office
In a letter earlier this month, City Council members Sally Clark and Nick Licata asked Mayor Mike McGinn to set up a formal selection committee to choose the replacements for the outgoing directors of the city’s Office of Housing, Adrienne Quinn, and Human Services Department, Alan Painter. Read more.

02/04/10
Seattle Times
Median price of homes rises in Seattle, keeps dropping in suburbs
Home prices in the city of Seattle rose in January for the first time in nearly two years while they continued to fall in the rest of King County, according to one closely watched measure. Read more.

02/03/10
Seattle Times
$7.7M grant to aid programs for homeless youth
Melinda Giovengo can trace everything back to Sept. 15, 2008: That's the day Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, sparking a worldwide financial meltdown. Read more.

02/03/10
Seattle Times
Federal partnership promises a smarter, cleaner way to create jobs
At this moment in our history, nothing is more important than creating jobs. President Obama in his State of the Union address detailed strategies from tax cuts for small businesses to targeted clean-energy investments that will put Americans to work and jump-start a 21st-century economy. Read more.

02/03/10
Olympia Newswire
Housing fund: try, try again
Even in a short legislative session where lawmakers must find a way to close a big budget gap, the failure of one House bill isn’t stopping affordable housing advocates from pushing to raise new money for the Housing Trust Fund, the state’s primary funding source for developers of housing for the homeless and low-income wage earners. Read more.

02/02/10
Seattle Times
In Lake City, Seattle, homeless veterans and others now have a place to call home
McDermott Place, an apartment building where 38 of the 75 units are reserved for previously homeless veterans, has opened in Lake City. Read more.

01/29/10
Seattle Times
One Night Count finds slightly fewer homeless living on streets of King Co.
Despite the recession, the number of homeless people sleeping on the streets of King County is slightly lower than it was at this time last year, according to the county's annual One Night Count of the homeless not living in shelters. Read more.

01/29/10
Seattle Post Intelligencer
New Northwest HUD director named
A staff member for Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has been named as the Northwest director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Read more.

01/28/10
Real Estate Economy Watch
Obama Was Quiet on Housing
Though most economists believe the nation's housing crisis shares the stage with unemployment as the two fronts where we are failing in America's war to revive its economy, housing barely received a mention in President Obama's first State of the Union message last night. Read more.

01/26/10
Issaquah Press
Tent City 4, ‘a crossroads of humanity,’ returns here
Tent City 4 returned last week, hauled piece-by-piece to Community Church of Issaquah, assembled by volunteers and readied for residents to settle into nylon tents by nightfall. Read more.

01/25/10
Issaquah Press
City Council members will discuss affordable-housing dollars tonight
City Council members will consider $150,000 in loans and a grant for A Regional Coalition for Housing, a group of Eastside cities and King County formed to increase low- and moderate-income housing. Read more.

01/23/10
Seattle Times
Volunteers brighten lives with paint at Union Hotel
Kenny Taylor stopped in his tracks after entering his home Saturday morning. Read more.

12/31/09
KUOW News
Charity Donations Up For Basic Needs
Year–end campaigns are often crucial for the budgets of charity groups. Read more.

12/29/09
Sammamish Review
Town Center regulations taking place
Regulations that could define the look and feel of Town Center are on their way to the City Council. Read more.

12/29/09
Crosscut
Unexpected 'news' from Nickelsville
About 60 people attended a public meeting last week at Nickelsville, currently being hosted by New Hope Missionary Baptist Church on 21st Avenue near Yesler. Read more.

12/29/09
Apartment Finance Today
BRIDGE Housing names CEO
Cynthia A. Parker, a regional president for Mercy Housing, has been selected as president and CEO of BRIDGE Housing, one of the largest affordable housing developers and owners in California. Read more.

12/22/09
Central District News
Year in Review: Development way down, projects on hold
In 2008 we wrote more than 150 articles on real estate and development. This year, with prices falling and lending much tighter, there was much less news to cover in that category, resulting in only 45 stories. Read more.

12/18/09
Earth Times
Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle Announces $2.8 Million of Affordable Housing Program (AHP) Awards
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle (Seattle Bank) today announced it will provide nearly $2.8 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) subsidies to fund 10 projects in Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Read more.

12/17/09
Ballard News Tribune
The year ahead and behind in land use and neighborhoods
At the end of my first two years chairing the Seattle City Council's Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee, I feel a little like I'm renovating a house with a limited set of plans. Read more.

12/15/09
Publicola
Among Other Accomplishments
The non-partisan King County Council held a six-hour meeting last night (mostly taken up by, um, Republican and Democratic caucus breaks). Read more.

12/15/09
West Seattle Herald
New standards for livability, sustainability, and affordability in Seattle neighborhoods
Seattle City Council today adopted two pieces of legislation that will work to improve the livability, sustainability, and affordability of Seattle neighborhoods. Read more.

12/13/09
The News Tribune
Rich Tribes become richer with grants
Washington's Indian tribes so far have been awarded more than $94 million in federal stimulus funds, an unprecedented windfall for some of the neediest communities in the state. Read more.

12/10/09
Eat the State
Ain't No Power Like the Power of the People
Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) has always been strapped for money. Read more.

11/24/09
Issaquah Press
Bank awards grant to St. Andrew’s Housing Group
Sterling Savings Bank of Issaquah recently awarded the St. Andrew’s Housing Group a $2,000 Community Reinvestment Act grant. In participation with additional contributions, the grant will provide housing for low-income individuals. Read more.

11/24/09
Issaquah Press
Highlands YWCA facility groundbreaking set for Dec. 7
Officials will break ground early next month on a long-planned YWCA apartment complex in the Issaquah Highlands, a project hailed by city planners as a key piece of the highlands’ urban village concept. Read more.

11/23/09
Four Story
Lost in OC: When the Levy Takes
Seattle: It’s my kind of town, aside from my probably not being able to stand living there. Seattle is teeming with culture, people, architecture, neighborhoods, street life, clean air, and a sense of possibility that I love, but I’m evidently willing to chuck all that aside for a reasonably Mediterranean climate. Read more.

11/11/09
Opposing Views
On This Veterans Day, Working to Help Homeless Vets
On this Veterans' Day, when we remember those who have served, it is troubling to note that, although veterans make up around 9 percent of our population, they comprise 23 percent of our homeless population and fully a third of our homeless men.  Read more.

11/8/09
HeraldNet
Forecast for 2010 housing market: slow decline
Every year at about this time I write my annual housing market review and projection for the coming year. First, let me recap my record over the past two years.  Read more.

11/5/09
Ballard News Tribune
Voters renew commitment to housing most vulnerable neighbors
Seattle voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 1 Nov. 3, renewing the Seattle Housing Levy. Despite the recession, current reports from King County Elections show the Housing Levy passing with 64.2 percent of the vote.  Read more.

11/5/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Experts: Extended tax credit to boost local housing recovery
Nov. 30 was supposed to be the deadline, and it loomed large.  Read more.

11/4/09
Seattle Times
County executive-elect Constantine names transition committee chairs
State Sen. Fred Jarrett and affordable housing agency director Hyeok Kim will co-chair King County executive-elect Dow Constantine's transition committee.  Read more.

11/3/09
A Community on the Cutting Edge of Science
White House Blog
Two weeks ago, the National Conversation on the Future of America's Cities and Metropolitan Areas took us to Seattle, Washington to see the city’s marriage of economic development and livability. Read more.

10/30/09
Seattle Times
The Seattle housing levy is a good investment
As a business leader, I recognize a good investment when I see one.  Read more.

10/28/09
Seattle Medium
Obama Administration Officials Proclaim Seattle Development As Great Model For The Country
This past Friday officials from President Obama’s Administration continued their Urban Tour with a visit to Seattle’s South Lake Union area as part of an ongoing “National Conversation on the Future of Cities and Metropolitan Areas.”  Read more.

10/27/09
KTUU
Homeless conference focuses on 'Housing First'
This week a conference on homelessness is meeting in Anchorage.One of the things they're talking about is a program called "Housing First." Read more.

10/23/09
Apartment Finance Today
Enterprise Pledges $4 Billion to Green Housing
Enterprise has announced a $4 billion commitment to launch the next generation of its Green Communities initiative.  Read more.

10/21/09
KOMO News
Voters to decide fate of low-income housing
Come November, the city's voters will decide whether to approve a $145 million levy for new low-income housing.  Read more.

10/16/09
Huff Post
The Homeless Connection in Health Care
While health care reform is being hotly debated across the nation, one of the groups most likely to be affected by reform has been characteristically silent: people who are homeless.  Read more.

10/14/09
Examiner
Seattle City Council planning committee proposes multifamily housing code revisions
The Seattle City Council Planning, Land Use, and Neighborhoods committee met on Wednesday to discuss revisions to the multifamily land use code.  Read more.

10/12/09
KING 5 News
Seattle housing levy critical for seniors, disabled
The Seattle Housing Levy on the November ballot hasn't received much publicity.  Read more.

10/8/09
Seattle Post Globe
Mallahan and McGinn turn attention to affordable housing
Continuing their campaign to fill in the blanks for voters with about a month left in the general election, Seattle mayoral candidates Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn turned their attention Thursday to affordable housing.  Read more.

10/7/09
New York Times
Democrats May Extend Tax Credits for Homes
Democratic Congressional leaders are working with the White House to extend an expiring $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, and aides said Wednesday that they were considering making it available to current homeowners who purchase a new residence.  Read more.

10/6/09
Seattle Post Globe
Mallahan and McGinn debate poverty and social services issues
Lobbed generally softball questions Seattle’s mayoral candidates Michael McGinn and Joe Mallahan continued their tour of the city Tuesday night, each taking the opportunity at a Seattle Human Services Coalition to portray themselves as having the same progressive values as the social services advocates in the room.  Read more.

09/15/09
Reuters
Plymouth Housing Group Gets a Leg up on Providing Homeless Housing with Newly Launched Fund-Raising Event, Seattle Dances!
Following a successful, three-year fundraising event partnership with Seattle Hotel Association, Plymouth Housing Group announced today it will launch a signature fundraiser to uphold its supportive housing programs for Seattle`s chronically homeless people. Read more.

09/13/09
Seattle Times
Future Shack: Architects building our tomorrow
AIA Seattle celebration showcases forward thinking for urban living, highlighting 11 projects that get it right. Read more.

09/13/09
Dallas Morning News
Seattle’s 1811 Eastlake project puts housing first, saves lives and money
An attractive blue and gray apartment building with views of the Space Needle saved taxpayers $4 million in one year – simply by giving hardcore homeless alcoholics a place to live.  Read more.

09/10/09
The Daily Score
Toward a New Measure of Housing Affordability
Last week I wrote about the strange way we measure poverty in the United States. Read more.

09/09/09
Real Estate Rama
Seattle Housing Authority Wins $10 Million HUD Grant to Expand Housing
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Donovan today announced that HUD has awarded $10 million to the Seattle Housing Authority $10 million to help develop, beginning next summer up to 118 units of rental housing in the Rainier Vista neighborhood. Read more.

09/09/09
West Seattle Blog
Archbishop visits West Seattle to bless new housing units Seattle Archbishop Alex Brunett - the region’s top Catholic leader - was in West Seattle this afternoon to bless and dedicate a new project of the Archdiocesan Housing Authority, which has 1,900 units around the region.  Read more.

08/28/09
Crosscut
The legal issues in 'backyard cottages'
 “Backyard cottages” are likely to be one of the last land-use legacies of the Nickels regime. Read more.

08/26/09
Crosscut
Nickels Announces Funding For Homeless Prevention And ‘Re-housing’
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels recently announced that the city of Seattle is awarding $4.3 million in federal and local funding to 10 agencies (for 13 programs) to prevent more than 1,600 low-income households from becoming homeless over the next two years. Read more.

08/26/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer  
UW report: Housing, food, transport costs rising
A new report confirms what most Washington families already know - it's getting more costly to meet basic needs such as housing, food and child care. Read more.

08/18/09
Sightline Daily
Walkable Neighborhoods Are Worth More
You may have already heard of Walk Score -- an endlessly entertaining internet tool that lets people discover how pedestrian-friendly their neighborhood is. Read more.

08/16/09
Boston Globe
President shifts focus to renting, not owning
The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society’’ and instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities. Read more.

08/14/09
Tacoma Daily News
Incentive Housing focus of Tacoma City Council study session Aug. 18
Members of Tacoma City Council are scheduled Aug. 18 to receive a presentation on incentive housing policies for affordable housing development from Seattle Housing Director, Adrienne Quinn. Read more.

08/12/09
Northwest Asian Weekly
New housing project in Southeast Seattle goes green
The name for a new affordable-housing project in Seattle’s Rainier Valley seems to be a perfect fit since it’s located next door, at 3925 South Bozeman Street, to the Lao Highland Community Center. Read more.

08/10/09
Crosscut
Inside a Tent City near Microsoft
As a national video shows, these encampments have much to commend them. But they are no substitute for more permanent living places. Read more.

08/10/09
Seattle Post Globe
Commentary: the Myth of Southeast Seattle and affordable housing
Over the years we’ve heard some neighborhood activists claim that Southeast Seattle has “become the dumping ground” for the city’s social services and low-income housing. Read more.

08/07/09
New York Times
Critical Need for Affordable Senior Housing
The Bart Harvey is just a building, but it rescued Felicity Morrison from a homeless shelter. Read more.

08/06/09
Tacoma Weekly
Salishan receives funding for senior housing community
The next step in the transformation of the Salishan neighborhood will begin soon, now that final funding is in place for a 55-apartment affordable senior housing community. Read more.

08/02/09
Seattle Times
$23 million for weatherization work spreads across Washington State
Five months after congressional approval, about $23 million in federal weatherization money is finally flowing across the state, putting theoretical plans for economic stimulus into elbow-grease practice. Read more.

07/26/09
Seattle Times
Big development on lot near Qwest Field could start in next year
Decades-old dreams of building something big on part of the sprawling parking lot north of Qwest Field took a big step forward this month when the Seattle City Council approved zoning changes paving the way for redevelopment. Read more.

07/23/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle rolls out $8.1 million for city housing
Seattle mayor Greg Nickels Wednesday announced $8.1 million in funding to rehabilitate and preserve nearly 200 homes for low-income seniors and build 70 homes affordable to working individuals and families. Read more.

07/23/09
Seattle Times
Modern rooming house offers cable-ready, furnished rooms — the size of a parking spot
Videré, on Capitol Hill, may be the first new rooming house in Seattle in decades. Its developers say it's part of the solution to the affordable-housing problem, but some neighbors have concerns. Read more.

07/19/09
Seattle Times
Seattle's Federal Home Loan Bank in big money trouble again
Don't look now, but another big Seattle-based bank is struggling under the weight of distressed mortgage-backed securities, declining loan business and the deflated housing market. Read more.

07/12/09
Seattle Times
Seattle's 'new urbanism': making smart, sustainable, stylish dwellings
As questions of density, affordability and livability continue to drive discussions about how to design our urban worlds, architects, citizens and city officials are all looking for a shared sense of what the "new urbanism" means — whether and how to regulate, encourage and ultimately create the kind of built environment we want. Read more.

07/12/09
Seattle Times
Ron Sims adjusting to life in Washington, D.C., as deputy secretary at HUD
Ron Sims has a new job in a new city. But he's still promoting an old pet cause. Read more.

07/09/09
The Daily Score
Legalize Neighborhood Density
Cities explore ways to increase housing choices in single family neighborhoods. Read more.

07/09/09
Tacoma Weekly
Seattle housing official offers advice to Tacoma
A single person earning between $25,000 and $30,000 a year can find an affordable place to live in Tacoma. That is increasingly difficult to do in Seattle. Read more.

07/06/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
International district building sells, but rents to stay low
The Archdiocesan Housing Authority has sold an International District apartment building, but the new buyer plans to keep rents low. Read more.

06/29/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Local calls for housing help increase as economy collapses
The number of homeless people in King County is increasing and the number of people who need help to stay in their homes is going up as well as the deep economic recession continues. Read more.

06/25/09
eNews Forest Park
HUD Secretary Donovan Encourages Communities, Developers to Build Energy-Efficient, Affordable Housing
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today encouraged a gathering of public housing officials, energy experts, developers and architects to continue exploring innovative practices to build energy-efficient, affordable housing and communities through HUD's HOPE VI Revitalization program. Read more.

06/23/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Report: State has small under-supply of available homes
While developers are unloading unsold homes at auction, slashing prices and offering incentives such as low interest rates and cash bonuses, Washington doesn't actually have an oversupply of vacant homes, according a new report. Read more.

06/18/09
Environment News Service
U.S. Mayors Want More Generous Funding for Metropolitan Mobility
During his inaugural speech at the Conference's annual gathering, Mayor Nickels said, "For too long, the federal government has relied on cookie cutter formulas that don't produce the outcomes we all want. It is time to allocate funds in a way that most effectively reduces congestion in our nation's cities and targets transportation investments to centers of housing and employment." Read more.

06/2009
Affordable Housing Finance
Seattle Mayor Pushes Housing Levy
On three occasions, the voters here agreed to raise their taxes to support affordable housing. Read more.

05/28/09
Daily Journal of Commerce
Developer finds community in mixed-use project
Squire Park Plaza in Seattle’s Central Area was designed to be part of the neighborhood, with “mom-and-pop” commercial spaces and 59 units of work-force housing. Read more.

05/27/09
Miller-McCune
Hospitals Save Money with Homeless Outreach
Two studies, one in Chicago and the other in Seattle, prove we can save health care dollars by housing and helping the homeless. Read more.

05/26/09
The News Tribune
Developer to talk about how to create affordable housing in thriving communities
Part of creating a vibrant community is ensuring the workers - teachers, firefighters, retail clerks - can afford to live near jobs, and local governments already have tools to help make that happen, an affordable housing expert said. Read more.

05/26/09
West Seattle Herald
Council approves $3.2 million in federal stimulus
The Seattle City Council has approved to allow the expenditure of $3.2 million in Community Development Block Grant funds by amending amend the City’s approved 2009 budget. Read more.

05/23/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Housing solutions start with more tents
Dealing with Seattle's affordable-housing problem requires a comprehensive solution encompassing mental health, criminal justice and decent jobs, but more tents would be a start. Read more.

05/14/09
Daily Journal of Commerce
Affordable housing, without public funds
Mount Baker Housing Association plans to buy and upgrade a number of small apartment buildings. Read more.

05/07/09
Capitol Hill Times
Seattle Housing Levy Helps Neighbor(hood)s in Need
Anna Markee
It should be possible for working people to afford housing and still have enough money for the basics like groceries and gas and child care. But right now in Seattle, more than 21,000 low-income renters struggle to pay their rent each month and still meet their other needs. Read more.

04/24/09
Seattle Times
$300M project at Seattle Goodwill site canceled
Developers have canceled a retail and housing project on the Goodwill property on South Dearborn Street in Seattle. Read more.

04/19/09
Sightline Daily
Greening Hope VI
Capital investment in building green yields returns. Read more.

04/13/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
500 people ready to interview Seattle homeless
If you happen to be hanging outside in downtown Seattle Monday night -- say, between the hours of 9 p.m. and midnight -- don't be offended if a trio of earnest volunteers asks if you're homeless. Read more.

04/08/09
Seattle Times
More seniors using vehicles as shelters
Seniors living out of RVs and cars are typical of what the state and the country will see in the future, as the numbers of poor elderly increase over the next several decades, say advocates for the homeless. Read more.

04/01/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Study: Seattle home for alcoholics saved taxpayers $4million
For years, Nathaniel Porter began his day with a pint of vodka or whiskey, which often made him throw up, which made him reach for a beer. Read more.

03/31/09
Seattle Times
Seattle Poll: In a recession, how much will we tax ourselves for affordable housing?
Mayor Greg Nickels is considering a renewal of Seattle's affordable housing levy that would almost double the tax burden of the current levy. Read more.

02/26/09
PRESS RELEASE:
Washington State Housing Trust Fund, Seattle Housing Levy Recognized with $1million MacArthur Foundation Grant.
Investment aimed at ensuring preservation of affordable housing for an estimated 3,200 families in Washington. Read more.

02/05/09
Seattle Times
Provide incentives for cities, residents to avoid sprawl
Sprawl is the most expensive way for a community to grow, notes Washington Rep. Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island. Read more.

01/20/09
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
Opinion: In 50 words: What is affordability and how can Seattle achieve it?
It should be possible for working people to afford housing and still have enough money for the basics like groceries and gas and child care. Read more.

01/11/09
HeraldNet
Housing should be in reach, especially in times like these, June Robinson
In Snohomish County, Washington state and across the country, we face uncertain economic times. Read more.

01/06/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
More Letters to the Editor: Housing, Martin Kooistra
Recent news about our state's looming budget deficit signals the need to make deep cuts, in critical areas. Read more.

01/04/09
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Affordable Housing: Only results matter
Good intentions count when you're talking about the first days of a New Year's resolution. But for something like the city's affordable housing program, only the results matter. Read more.

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12/30/08
Seattle Times
Seattle may ease rules to encourage affordable housing downtown
Two programs designed to bring affordable housing to downtown Seattle have fallen short of expectations, with officials spending just $5 million of the $20 million collected from developers. Read more.

12/16/08
Seattle Times
Affordable-housing plan OK'd, but will it work?
The Seattle City Council approved a new affordable-housing program Monday, but the recession will make it tough to judge whether it will work. Read more.

12/16/08
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
HIV/AIDS housing gets LEED platinum
Kenyon House, a supportive community with 18 studio apartments for people with HIV/AIDS on Capitol Hill, has received LEED platinum certification under LEED for homes. Read more.

12/15/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
City Council OKs affordable-housing plan
Expressing reluctance, concerns about a cookie cutter approach and mixed feelings about the timing, the Seattle City Council voted 6-3 Monday to approve an incentive zoning plan to push developers to build more affordable housing. Read more.

12/14/08
Seattle Times
Could "incentive zoning" solve Seattle housing woes?
The Seattle City Council votes Monday on a program that would allow developers to build taller buildings in exchange for setting aside affordable-housing units. Read more.

12/09/08
Seattle Times
New census numbers explain why the housing bubble burst
New census data show that throughout the first half of the decade, the slumping economy touched nearly every U.S. community. Read more.

12/03/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Housing at risk in Seattle
When housing is in short supply, why are we making it more complex and expensive to build? Read more.

11/17/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Urban Rest Stop lifts up the city's down and out
Just seven years ago, Ben Busby-Collins was blowing through money, boozing, bottoming out. Read more.

11/10/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Housing vouchers help bring vets home
"EVERY DAY should be Veterans Day across America," Sen. Patty Murray said Monday. "Caring for our veterans ... is an American responsibility." Read more.

11/04/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Unusual partnership led to creation of Fremont Solstice Apartments
For years, developers have built condos in Fremont -- and made the natives restless. Read more.

11/03/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Interbay upzoning plan approved
Apologizing for a four-year delay but relieved to finally bust through political gridlock, the Seattle City Council approved plans Monday aimed at transforming blighted Interbay into a green neighborhood. Read more.

10/22/2008
Seattle Times
U.S. gap between rich, poor widening
Economic inequality is growing in the world's richest countries, particularly in the United States, jeopardizing the American Dream of social mobility just as the world tilts toward recession, a 30-nation report said Tuesday. Read more.

10/17/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle tent sites ordered to merge
The city has issued an ultimatum to the organizers of the homeless encampment known as "Nickelsville": consolidate it with another tent city in Seattle or face legal consequences. Read more.

10/17/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Housing gets hammered
The nation is on track to build fewer homes this year than at any time since the end of World War II...Read more.

10/15/2008
Sustainable Industries
Nonprofit makes green housing affordable
Green building, due to its long-term payoffs from reduced resource use, is becoming a more prevalent strategy among social service agencies working to provide affordable housing for low-income families. Read more.

10/15/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Economic boom left out working poor, but bust won't
Many trapped in low paying jobs...Read more.

10/15/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Magnolia group sues over Fort Lawton housing plan
A Magnolia neighborhood group has sued the city of Seattle, challenging its plan to redevelop the former Fort Lawton Army Reserve Base for housing. Read more.

10/13/2008
West Seattle Herald
Affordable housing proposal up for vote
The Seattle City Council is scheduled to vote by the end of the year on a proposal that would allow developers to build taller in the Ballard neighborhood commercial district in exchange for providing some residential units below market rate or other types of public benefits like open space. Read more.

10/13/2008
Forbes
America's Luxury Homes, Downsized
Ross Chapin builds high-end homes that are small or, as he calls them, "sensibly sized." Read more.

09/30/2008
Seattle Times
Mayor's propsed budget cuts administrative jobs
Proposing to cut only administrative costs, Mayor Greg Nickels Monday announced what he called a compassionate Seattle budget for 2009 and 2010. Read more.

09/29/2008
Seattle Times
Charities face loss of WaMu giving; $48.6M donated last year
One day after Paul Chiocco heard about the sudden demise of Washington Mutual, he was trying to figure out how to fill a possible budget hole...Read more.

09/23/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
City Council OKs Fort Lawton redevelopment plan
Proposal calls for mix of market rate, homeless housing...Read more.

09/16/2008
Housing Washington 2008
State Honors Carla Okigwe of the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County
Carla Okigwe (bio follows) was honored this evening for
a lifetime of service to the mission of expanding affordable housing resources for the
benefit of Washington’s low-income residents. Read more.

08/27/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Money Squeeze: Household income rose in 2007
Working as a prep cook at a SeaTac restaurant, James Hale has earned the same wage -- $10 per hour -- since February 2006. Read more.

08/14/2008
Seattle Times
We need to expand our definition of "sustainable" communities
How do we make existing communities sustainable? Read more.

07/31/2008
For more information on the housing bill see the following:

Cantwell's Summary

National Council of State Housing Agencies' bill summary

National Low Income Housing Coalition's summary of the Housing Trust Fund

07/31/2008
Seattle Times
The gem in the housing bill
If you were to ask Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd — the principal architects of the massive housing bill signed Wednesday by...Read more.

07/30/2008
Seattle Times
Bush signs housing bill to provide mortgage relief
President Bush on Wednesday signed a massive housing bill intended to provide mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners and stabilize financial markets. Read more.

07/30/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
State, homeowners taking on lenders
Michelle Miran didn't realize that there was something wrong with her mortgage until the interest rate reset last year. Read more.

07/29/2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homelessness: What's the deal?
Tent City has become an important way station for the region's homeless – and successful by just about any metric. Read more.

07/29/2008
Seattle Times
$56 million in Housing Authority repair needs worry senior tenants
The Seattle Housing Authority says it needs $56 million over the next 10 years to repair the 23 apartment buildings that make up the Seattle Senior Housing Program, which serves low-income seniors — but operates with no government subsidy that could help pay for the repairs. Read more.

07/2008
Affordable Housing Finance
Street Kings in Seattle
It took some 130 meetings with residents of the former public housing development located in the White Center neighborhood to come up with a plan to replace deteriorating housing that was originally built in 1942 to house Boeing workers during World War II. Read more.

07/2008
Affordable Housing Finance
Sharing Space
On a busy downtown corner, a new green building balances the needs of a demanding neighborhood, formerly homeless residents, and the nation’s largest pharmacy chain. Read more.

07/2008
Affordable Housing Finance
A Long Engagement
Those who typically have been shut out of affordable housing options get more than a home at Evans House. Read more.

07/11/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Old Chubby & Tubby building will be torn down for
apartments
Only the signs and the name remain of crowds who came looking for a deal and the $1 Christmas trees they used to find in the parking lot. Read more.

07/10/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
We can cope with change in Seattle
Barack Obama campaigned on it, self-help gurus swear by it and we have come to expect it in our culture, politics and economy. Read more.

06/09/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A grand plan for Duwamish neighbors
Imagine gondolas whisking people from West Seattle across the Duwamish River. Or water taxis scooting along the Duwamish to downtown. Read more.

06/09/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homeless camp out at City Hall, protest tent camp sweeps
In April, Seattle officials added capacity for 20 homeless shelter beds and promised to give three days' notice to homeless people forced from unauthorized tent camps in controversial sweeps. Read more.

06/09/08
Seattle Times
15 arrested at City Hall today protesting sweeps of homeless camps
Fifteen people protesting the sweeps of homeless encampments in Seattle parks were arrested Monday morning after they blocked Cherry Street on the north side of City Hall in Seattle by pitching a tent in the street and standing in the road. Read more.

06/06/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homeless struggle to be heard at City Hall
The bodies were lined up on the Second Avenue sidewalk in the chilly June night. Read more.

06/06/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Green and affordable
The folks over at Capitol Hill Housing want to get out the message that environmentally friendly construction doesn't have to be expensive. Read more.

06/01/08
Seattle Times
Homeless: new growth industry
Kevin, whom his mates call "Boston" because that's where he's from, is giving me a walking tour of the growth in his neighborhood. Read more.

05/28/08
Seattle Times
Veterans seek help at homeless shelter
Some veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan are among the Seattle-area homeless who seek the help of the Compass Center, which offers transitional housing. Read more.

05/23/08
Washington CEO Magazine
Getting Green From the Brown
RAINIER COURT, an urban village of apartments and commercial spaces, boldly rises in the heart of Seattle's Rainier Valley, defying the history of the property it occupies. Read more.

05/14/08
Bellevue Reporter
An attainable goal: Affordable housing in Bel-Red
With the costs of real estate development increasing daily, building housing affordable to the full range of income levels seems like an impossible task. Read more.

05/07/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Emergency home loans approved by City Council panel
Several dozen Seattle homeowners facing foreclosure could receive emergency loans under a new program approved by a City Council committee Wednesday. Read more.

05/03/08
Seattle Times
Bellevue affordable-housing plan up for discussion
Bellevue city officials this summer will have an unusual opportunity to make a dent in one of the Eastside's most sweeping problems: the lack of affordable housing. Read more.

05/02/08
Seattle Times
Rezoning urged to aid project at Goodwill site
Seattle's planning department has recommended a zoning change that would help convert the 10-acre Goodwill Industries site on South Dearborn Street into a large shopping center and 565 apartments and condos. Read more.

05/01/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle nonprofit offers Senate ways to help homeless veterans
Permanent housing and better monitoring are needed to help a growing number of homeless veterans, a Seattle-area advocate for the former soldiers told the Senate on Thursday. Read more.

05-06/08
Harvard Magazine
Making Credit Safer
Read more.

04/23/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A school for kids living in poverty
A teacher tries to shush her young students, telling them to be "as quiet as a mouse." Read more.

04/21/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Rent at an all time high--if you can find a place
Byron Kilbourne has been looking for an apartment in Seattle since February. Read more.

04/20/08
Seattle Times
New light rail clears way for an MLK makeover
Mike Hlastala has seen the future. And it runs on rails. Read more.

04/16/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homelessness: Achieving Balance
Dealing with homeless encampments is a tricky business, one that requires that the city weigh the needs of the homeless with safety issues. Read more.

04/15/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle homeless camp policy under fire
Seattle crews have razed six unauthorized homeless encampments so far this year while the city developed a protocol for such controversial sweeps, officials said this week. Read more.

04/09/08
Seattle Times
Misguided land-use regulations push middle class out of King County
Does it surprise you to know that the middle class is getting squeezed out of King County? Probably not. Read more.

04/09/08
Seattle Times
Coucil favors renewal of levy for parks
With rising condo towers and disappearing green space in Seattle, City Council members say the city needs more parks. Read more.

04/09/08
Seattle Times
County budget shortfall bad, and it will get worse
King County's budget chief, saying the financial outlook has deteriorated significantly in the past month, now projects a $20 million shortfall this year and a $60 million problem next year. Read more.

04/02/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Little Saigon neighborhood won't benefit from big-box mall
If you want to explore one of the quietest gems of Seattle's crown, walk east up Jackson Street from the International District. You'll soon be walking into the heart of Seattle's Little Saigon. Read more.

04/01/08
Seattle Times
Housing leader steps down
The resignation of embattled Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson leaves the Bush administration without a top housing official as it faces a vast mortgage crisis that has shaken the global economy. Read more.

03/26/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Section 8 Housing: Living Redemption
Lives can go wrong, and a high price is paid for mistakes. But when it comes to punishment, how much is enough and when does redemption come in? Those are questions the Seattle Housing Authority Commission is considering as it mulls its screening criteria for Section 8 housing applicants. Read more.

03/26/08
Seattle Times
Helping working families buy--and keep--their homes
Can you afford a home in the community where you work? For more and more families in Snohomish County, the answer is no. Read more.

03/11/08
Seattle Times
Downtown Bellevue condos beckon to younger crowds
When downtown Bellevue living started to take off several years ago, typical buyers of the glitzy new condos were aging baby boomers looking for a second home or to downsize after the kids moved out. Read more.

03/09/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Interbay in transition: From 'no man's land' to urban village
On any given day, the semi-industrial zone known as Interbay jolts to life. Read more.

03/07/08
Seattle Times
FHA and others are lifting limitson mortgages
A sizable increase in key mortgage limits announced Thursday may deliver a big dose of first aid to the sluggish Puget Sound housing market. Read more.

03/06/08
Seattle Times
Living closer together does not mean we have to step on each other's toes.
The conclusion to be drawn from the new University of Washington study about the effect of land-use rules on home prices is not that we must choose between affordable housing and clean air, open space, parks and a green quality of life. Read more.

03/03/08
Seattle Times
Don't expect economics to settle the land-use debate
When I asked Theo Eicher if he was surprised by the furious reaction to his study on land-use regulations and housing prices, he answered with the maddening care of an economist: "Yes and no." Read more.

02/29/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Ballard hosts Tent City
Hayley Parks held a wide-eyed 9-month-old girl on her hip, gazing out her kitchen window at an empty church parking lot. Read more.

02/28/08
Real Change
Council looking at new heights changes zones
Taller buildings for neighborhoods--if developers pay for affordable housing. Read more.

02/27/08
Seattle Weekly
Your Neighbor's Last Roof was the Viaduct
Does it bother you that the county is renting him a place next to you? Read more.

02/27/08
Seattle Times
Seattle housing priced up--barely
With a full year's numbers now in, S&P/Case Shiller reported Tuesday that Seattle's single-family homes appreciated a meager 0.5 percent in 2007. Read more.

02/21/08
Seattle Times
Area's middle class is losing ground
More people are flying high or falling into poverty while the middle class is shrinking, says a county report released Wednesday. Read more.

2/20/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Home is sacred, even if it's a tent
The most visible and horrible manifestation of the city of Seattle's encampment sweeps policy was the death of Isaac Palmer last summer. Read more.

2/20/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Democrats unveil state budget plan
Despite a $522 million downgrade in the state's estimated available revenue, House Democrats have crafted a supplemental spending plan that keeps intact almost all of the $33 billion budget passed last year. Read more.

2/19/08
Seattle Times
At last, a place of her own
For the first time in years, Mary Millett, 67, has a permanent roof over her head, a bathroom of her own and a door she can lock. Read more.

2/15/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
King County needs affordable family housing
Nurri worked as a certified nursing assistant, his wife Ayalnesh as a cashier at Goodwill. Their story is typical of people Habitat for Humanity tries to help. Read more.

2/12/08
Seattle Times
City Council asked to unfreeze funds for displaced renters
Local housing activists are asking the Seattle City Council to release $350,000 in funds set aside last year to help renters displaced by condominium conversions. Read more.

2/11/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Nickels withholds money meant for displaced renters
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is withholding emergency funds meant to help rental dwellers find new housing when evicted by developers converting their buildings into condominiums. Read more.

2/5/08
Seattle Times
Condo Conversions: Relief for renters likely on way
Renters forced from their apartments to make way for condominiums would get more time to find a new home and extra money to pay for it under a new law expected to pass the Legislature. Read more.

2/4/08
Partnership to End Longterm Homelessness
17th Maxwell Awards Winners and Finalists Announced
Fourteen nonprofits honored for their excellence in the creation and management of supportive housing for homeless individuals and families. Read more.

2/1/08
Seattle Times
In housing we trust
Hundreds of concerned citizens fanned out into our local community in the early hours of Jan. 25, counting people who are homeless. Read more.

1/31/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
City of Seattle: Home Investing
The subprime mortgage crisis coupled with rising home prices have done a number on our region, exposing some to the possibility of losing their homes. Read more.

1/28/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
City of Seattle's plan for clearing homeless encampments called inhumane
The city of Seattle's draft protocol for removing homeless encampments is unreasonable and inhumane and would violate federal and state law, critics said Monday. Read more.

1/25/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Count shows 15 percent increase in homelessness
The annual One Night Count of the homeless in Seattle and other parts of King County early Friday reflected an increase in the unsheltered population from a year ago, but the numbers may not tell the whole story. Read more.

1/25/08
Seattle Times
"One Night Count" finds 15% increase in street homelessness in King County
Homelessness in King County increased 15 percent over last year, according to the annual One Night Count in King County that was held in today's freezing early morning hours. Read more.

1/24/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homeless shelters packed as cold weather sets in
More than 150 homeless people stayed in Seattle shelters Tuesday night and even more are expected later this week, a spokesman for the city's human services department said.
Read more.

1/23/08
Seattle Times
Real Estate Remained Healthy
Median single-family home prices were up last year throughout the Pugent Sound region. Read more.

1/23/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Two sides to '07 housing market
Last year was, in many ways, two different years for the Seattle-area housing market. Read more.

01/21/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Tax break spurs developer interest in neglected lot
Federal program revives poor areas. Read more.

01/11/08
Real Change
Money on Their Minds
Legislators convene with budget surplus, leaner times on the horizon. Read more.

01/11/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homeless get 48 hours to leave
Homeless people who camp on city property would be given at least 48 hours' notice before they and their belongings are removed under a draft protocol for dealing with unauthorized encampments, Seattle officials said Thursday. Read more.

01/11/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Colman School activists to get their museum
Colman School has long been a landmark to drivers heading eastbound from downtown, a historic brick building rising from the edge of the Interstate 90 lid. Read more.

01/11/08
Seattle Times
School is transformed in museum, housing
Running her hand over the exposed brick of the old school walls, and checking out the view of downtown skyscrapers, Jennifer Hopkins couldn't help but let out a little cry of delight.Read more.

01/09/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Homelessness: Good for the soul
More proof that compassion isn't just good for the soul, but also good for one's pocketbook: Seattle and King County's housing projects targeting the chronically homeless work, and they save us $3.2 million each year. Read more.

01/08/08
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Housing Homeless saves money
Projects that address addiction cut hospital, jail visits, study finds.Read More