A rendering of the planned YouthCare South Annex at Broadway and Pine
The Central District’s New Hope Missionary Baptist Church is busy this week. Friday, it will be the setting for a Kshama Sawant press conference to discuss her “lead in the vote over the recall effort, and next steps for working people’s movements.” Thursday, one of Sawant’s chief political opponents held one of her final press conferences before leaving office as Mayor Jenny Durkan came to 21st Ave to announce a final $95 million in support for new affordable housing in the city including $13 million for the 87-unit New Hope Family Housing planned for the church’s Central District property.
The Durkan administration says since Durkan took office in 2017, the Office of Housing has invested more than $547 million “to create and preserve over 7,600 rental housing units and permanently affordable homeownership opportunities.”
The funding along with county, state, and federal funds, total an estimated $2.5 billion in “housing investments,” according to the announcement from Durkan’s office.
The latest round includes $3 million for workforce housing on Broadway from developers TAP Collaborative and nearly $10 million for the YouthCare South Annex project at Broadway and Pine. CHS reported here on the Community Roots Housing project to create eight stories of affordable housing and a homeless youth “education and employment academy.”
An application for $14 million to support a “Youth Achievement Center” planned for homeless young people in Columbia City by Africatown Land Trust was not included in this round of funding.
The city also announced it was funding the purchase of the Goldfinch Apartments in Fremont as part of “rapid acquisition” programs made possible by the federal American Rescue Plan, “which allowed Seattle and Washington State Department of Commerce to leverage local, state, and federal funding.”
In September, CHS reported on the city’s acquisition of three Capitol Hill apartment developments to create new housing for individuals experiencing homelessness.
The full roster of developments included in Durkan’s final round of affordable housing funding is below.
Fall 2021 Affordable Housing Investments
Total Investments: $95,600,000
Total Affordable Homes Created, Preserved, or Acquired: 1,119
Affordable Rental Housing – New Construction
| Building Name
Sponsor |
Population to be Served | Incomes Served | Homes | Neighborhood |
| St. Luke’s Affordable Housing
Bridge Housing Corporation |
Individuals and families | Up to 50%, 60% AMI | 86 | Ballard |
| YouthCare South Annex
Community Roots Housing |
Individuals; young adults experiencing homelessness | Up to 30%, 50% AMI | 84 | Capitol Hill |
| DESC Woodland
DESC |
Individuals experiencing homelessness | Up to 30% AMI | 100 | Fremont |
| El Centro Columbia City
El Centro de la Raza |
Individuals and families | Up to 30%, 50%, 60% AMI | 87 | Columbia City |
| MLK Mixed Use
Low Income Housing Institute |
Individuals and families; young adults | Up to 30%, 50% AMI | 148 | Othello |
| New Hope Family Housing
New Hope Community Development Institute |
Individuals and families; individuals experiencing homelessness | Up to 30%, 50%, 60% AMI | 87 | Central District |
| Broadway Urbaine
TAP Collaborative |
Individuals and families | Up to 60% AMI | 100 | Capitol Hill |
| Total Affordable Rental Housing – New Construction | 692 | |||
Affordable Rental Housing – Reinvestment & Rehabilitation
| Building Name
Sponsor |
Population to be Served | Incomes Served | Homes | Neighborhood |
| Union Hotel
DESC |
Individuals experiencing homelessness | Up to 30% AMI | 52 | Downtown |
| NP and Eastern Hotel
InterImCDA |
Individuals and families | Up to 30%, 50% AMI | 109 | Chinatown-International
District |
| Jensen Block Apartments
Low Income Housing Institute |
Individuals | Up to 30%, 40% AMI | 30 | South Lake Union/Cascade |
| Pacific Apartments and Plymouth on Stewart
Plymouth Housing |
Individuals experiencing homelessness | Up to 30%, 50% AMI | 173 | Downtown |
| Total Affordable Rental Housing – Reinvestment & Rehabilitation | 364 | |||
Affordable Rental Housing – Rapid Acquisition
| Building Name
Sponsor |
Population to be Served | Incomes Served | Homes | Neighborhood |
| Goldfinch Apartments
Chief Seattle Club |
Individuals experiencing homelessness, American Indian and Alaska Native focus | Up to 30%, 50% AMI | 63 | Fremont |
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