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Home *Resist. Protest. Obstruct. Inform., Business News, Capitol Hill News, Community, Community News, Elder Gays, Gay News, Housing, Neighborhood News, Neighborhoods, News, Seattle News, SeniorsMayor Durkan and City of Seattle Provide Funding For LGBTQ Senior Housing

Mayor Durkan and City of Seattle Provide Funding For LGBTQ Senior Housing

December 13, 2019• byMichael Strangeways

On Monday, December 9th, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced that the City of Seattle would commit $110 million to build 1,944 new affordable living units in neighborhoods across Seattle, including The Eldridge, a new apartment building planned by Capitol Hill Housing for seniors and specifically, LGBTQ affirming members of the community.

That project was announced in July of this year and was pending approval and backing from the city. With this week’s announcement, the building, which will be located in the heart of Capitol Hill, the city’s main LGBTQ neighborhood, can move forward. Located at 1514 Broadway next door to Neighbours Night Club, one of the city’s oldest LGBTQ venues, the project is being designed for 125 low income units as well as the non-profit tenant, GenPRIDE on the ground floor.

Other projects receiving funding include new housing located in neighborhoods adjacent to Capitol Hill including 3 for First Hill, with an emphasis on housing for the homeless and the Africatown Plaza project in the Central District.

More from the press release:

Seattle (December 9, 2019) – Mayor Jenny A. Durkan today announced that the City of Seattle will invest $110 million to create 1,944 new affordable homes in neighborhoods across Seattle, the largest investment and the largest number of affordable homes ever created in Seattle in one year in our City’s history. Since Mayor Durkan entered office in 2017, the City has directly invested $250 million and together with our partners nearly $1.5 billion in public and private resources to create and preserve affordable homes.    

The 2019 funds invested through the City’s Office of Housing will support the construction of thirteen new buildings in Seattle (1,944 apartments) and will support a range of communities, including seniors, low-wage workers and families and people experiencing homelessness. Several of the new affordable housing buildings will include ground floor spaces to benefit the residents of the new buildings and the surrounding community – childcare, a senior health center and community spaces.    

The City’s rental housing awards of $110 million will leverage at least an additional $600 million in investments through additional public and private sources.  

 “Over the last three years, we have made monumental and historic investments in affordable housing. With nearly 900 city funded affordable homes that came online this year and another 3,400 expected to come online in the next few years, we have created a true partnership to deliver on affordability in our city,” said Mayor Durkan. “Seattle is committed to investing in housing and services that help advance our shared priorities of equity and inclusion. With investments in both permanent supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness, affordable housing for seniors, and housing for working families, we are addressing our affordability crisis.”  

Funding sources for the Office of Housing investments include the 2016 voter-passed Seattle Housing Levy, incentive zoning and Mandatory Housing Affordability payments, $32 million in Real Estate Excise Taxes and over $13 million through retained sales taxes, made possible by changes in state law authorized by the 2019 Washington State Legislature and Seattle City Council.  

“This historic investment in affordable homes reflects our values to create an affordable, equitable and inclusive city that will yield benefits to Seattle residents for generations to come,” said Emily Alvarado, Director of the Seattle Office of Housing. “The funding through the Office of Housing will help build homes for people experiencing homelessness, provide stability and safety for seniors, mitigate displacement and help people who work in Seattle live close to their jobs.”    

Every year, the Office of Housing provides a notice of funding availability for the Rental Housing Program. Affordable housing developers submit proposals that respond to City priorities. This year’s awards support 13 proposals. 

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About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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