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."
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