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affordable-housing
- Blog Post Jan 27, 2016
Brothers and Sisters
Around 2006, I as was judging the SoCal Awards and was struck by some new product created by The New Home Company. The New Home Company was truly “new” at the time, as a collaboration of talent from a recession-beaten, long-time SoCal builder came together under a new banner. What I loved about their product was the way they were…Read More - Blog Post Aug 28, 2015
Could Bellingham Become the New Ballard?
Free lending library in Bellingham, Washington's Lettered Streets neighborhood. Shocking! That's the consensus of house prices in the prime area of Ballard these days. Actual thinking there would every be a "prime" area in Ballard was beyond my conception when I was growing up there in the mid- 1960s. After 30 or 40 years of steady…Read More - Blog Post Sep 25, 2012
Bait and Switch?
For several months on our near daily walks, Dorothy and I pass this sign. Since I am a big fan of anything that expands the availability of new homes to those who need some help, I was excited to see what looked like a great deal of care in the architecture and land plan for this new work-force housing community. …Read More - project Apr 11, 2009
Making Things Right on the ‘Wrong Side of the Tracks’
Community High Point, Seattle, WA High Point was a 1940s era public housing project created initially to house wartime workers, then repurposed as low income, subsidized housing. The plan was to rebuild from the ground up, creating a mixed-use, mixed-income Master Planned community to fit into its Seattle legacy neighborhood of West Seattle. Challenges: Convince the…Read More