Seattle opened 1,750 subsidized, affordable apartments in 2023

Veronica loves living in Bellwether Housing’s new affordable-housing project The Rise on Madison on the border between Capitol Hill and First Hill. In fact, she said she “freaking loves it,” sitting outside the building on a cloudy August afternoon.

She moved into her studio apartment earlier this year with her rambunctious 4-month-old puppy Precious. The new place, not far from Veronica’s childhood home at 25th and Union in the Central District, marks her return to Seattle after a dark period that she described as chaotic.

Seven years ago, Veronica, who asked that Cascade PBS not use her last name for privacy, was living in Kent when she was evicted from her apartment and fell into homelessness. At first she lived in her car on the street, then in transitional housing in Kent and Skyway and eventually with her daughter in Tacoma.

Veronica’s new home on First Hill is one of 1,750 subsidized affordable apartments in 13 projects that opened in Seattle in 2023 using funding from the city’s Office of Housing. The buildings are in the Central District, on Capitol Hill, in Licton Springs, Rainier Beach and elsewhere.

https://www.cascadepbs.org/news/2024/08/seattle-opened-1750-subsidized-affordable-apartments-2023

Just as an aside, I turned up Lumen's internet server for The Rise on Madison last year.