An example of a multifamily housing in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (Sightline Institute Photo / Creative Commons) Roughly 9,200 affordable housing units are being preserved or created in the greater Seattle area thanks to an initiative launched by Microsoft three years ago. An additional 19,000 households have been able to hold on to their housing due…
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New apartments rise in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon on Tuesday announced that it has allocated $42.5 million to help pay for the construction of 318 affordable apartments near two light rail stations in the greater Seattle area. The projects are being done in partnership with Sound Transit, a local public…
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Marc Dones, CEO of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCHRA), and Neal Myrick, global head for the Tableau Foundation, discuss the region’s homelessness crisis. (Screenshot from WTIA event) It’s been a year since Marc Dones was hired to lead King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCHRA), a newly created government agency that is bringing together…
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The Anchor Community Initiative team with A Way Home Washington captured their reaction to Spokane’s significant decline in youth and young adult homelessness, as revealed through their data analysis. (A Way Home Washington Photo) A Washington state organization is using data and analytics to help solve a crisis that is both unconscionable and has seemed…