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New Urbanist Revival For Low Income Housing In Seattle

Posted by: Nate Berg

15 May 2007 - 6:00am

A former area of low-income housing has been redeveloped as a New Urbanist neighborhood in Seattle. The housing stock has almost doubled -- and nearly 40% of it is priced for very low income families.

"Holly Park's 871 homes — look-alike duplexes and fourplexes that formed the closest thing Seattle had to a low-income ghetto — were bulldozed, beginning in the late 1990s."

"Now almost fully occupied, NewHolly looks and feels like an unpretentious suburban subdivision — a tightly packed mix of 1,390 single-family houses, town homes and apartments."

"About 40 percent are set aside as public-housing units for very poor people (earning no more than $23,350 a year for a family of four) while 30 percent have been sold or rented at market rate. The rest are slightly subsidized, targeted to buyers and renters earning less than average income."

Full Story: A new neighborhood built to tear down old barriers
Source: The Seattle Times, May 13, 2007
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Much like Victorian reformers of the 1890s, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment for urban reform. Rather than standardization, sanitation, and social order, cities are now looking to promote "livability" and "sustainability".
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