affordable housing
Next Step in Seattle’s Affordable Housing Plan Includes 6,000 Rent-restricted Homes
Mayor Tim Burgess and city leaders unveiled the latest plans to address the city's housing affordability crisis.
Mayor Tim Burgess and Councilmember Rob Johnson have unveiled a new plan to add more affordable housing in Seattle. As the city deals with a housing affordability crisis and rents continue to increase, this new plan aims to add 6,000 new rent-restricted homes for low-income people by 2027. A new interactive map allows you to…
Creating an Affordable, Inclusive Puget Sound
Making room for our growing population will require more density in urban areas as well as innovation in transportation and office use.
Seattle has an enviable problem. More and more people are moving to the Puget Sound, so many that, by some estimates, the regions population could increase by one million residents by 2040. At the same time, Seattle is constrained geographically by water and hills. Our topography is scenic and beautiful, but it also makes it…