1. Office of Housing Briefing to Aging and Disability Services Advisory Council

2. Agenda What does the Office of Housing do?
Development & Preservation
Planning & Policy
Homeowner Assistance
Affordable housing for older adults
Senior housing projects in the pipeline
Additional resources
AFFH: taking meaningful actions to overcome historic patterns of segregation, promote fair housing choice, and foster inclusive communities that are free from discrimination

3. Defining “Affordable Housing”
Housing supported by the Office of Housing is rent- and income-restricted
Rent and income limits are based on Area Median Income (AMI)
Rent and Income Limits for an Individual in 2019
AMI Level
Income Limits
Rent Limits
100% AMI
$77,500
$1,937
50% AMI
$38,750
$968
30% AMI
$23,250
$581

4. What does the Office of Housing do?

5. Development & Preservation
Image credit: Ankrom Moisan
Mercy Othello Plaza:
108 affordable apartments with 1,2,3-bedroom floor plans
Community center, courtyard, commercial space on ground floor
Right next to Link light rail station
Frye Apartments
234 studio and 1-bedroom units
Homeless and low-income (30-50% AMI)
Above: Mercy Othello Plaza (Othello)
Right: Frye Apartments (Pioneer Square)
Image credit: Low Income Housing Institute

6. Development & Preservation
Resident population priorities
Homeless families, adults, and youth
Seniors and people with disabilities
Low-wage working families and individuals
Image credit: Mercy Housing Northwest

7. Development & Preservation
Project location priorities
Access to transit
Access to opportunity
Equitable development & anti-displacement goals
Resident needs

8. Planning & Policy Affordable housing incentive programs:
Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE)
Incentive Zoning (IZ)
Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA)
Affirmative marketing and community preference (link to KUOW radio segment mentioned in the meeting)
Image credit: Capitol Hill Housing

9. Homeowner Assistance
Investments to develop permanently affordable homeownership projects
Downpayment assistance loans
HomeSight is developing a limited-equity, residential housing cooperative at Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Holly Park Drive in South Seattle’s Othello Neighborhood.  All 68 units are affordable to families earning below 80% Area Median Income and below at the time of purchase.
The ground floor will have one commercial unit and a central courtyard connected to interior amenity space equipped with a kitchen and a commercial size washer and drier. There will also be communal sun decks on floors two and four. The unit mix is 25 one-bedrooms, 35 two-bedrooms, and 8 three-bedrooms.

10. Homeowner Assistance
Home Repair Program Funds critical health and safety repairs, as well as increases in habitable space Weatherization Program Funds energy conservation and indoor air quality improvements

11. Affordable housing for older adults – projects in the pipeline

12. Pipeline: Affordable Housing for Seniors
Filipino Community Village
Located in Hillman City, next to Filipino Community Center
95 units, including studios and 1- bedrooms for seniors aged 55 and older
Affordable at 30%, 50%, and 60% AMI
Funded by OH in 2017, completion expected in late 2020
In addition to affordable senior housing, the Filipino Community Village will include an Innovation Learning Center. It will have a youth lounge, a space for a computer classes and a multi-purpose room for events like cultural dances. The learning center is set up to help promote technological literacy in the neighborhood. In addition to computer labs, the learning center will involve a robotics program and a science-technology-engineering-arts-math (STEAM) program.
Image credit: Filipino Community of Seattle

13. Pipeline: Affordable Housing for Seniors
Northhaven Senior Housing
Located in Northgate, adjacent to Northgate mall and less than a mile from future light rail station
85 units, including studios and 1-bedrooms for seniors aged 55 and older
Affordable at 30%, 50%, and 60% AMI
Funded by OH in 2018
Ground floor: space for Providence ElderPlace, which will operate their PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) program to provide comprehensive health care and social services in the building
Image credit: Northaven Senior Housing

14. Pipeline: Affordable Housing for Seniors
LGBTQ-Affirming Affordable Senior Housing
Newly proposed site located on Broadway in Capitol Hill
Current concept: affordable homes for low-income seniors 55 years or older
Capitol Hill Housing intends to submit an application for funding in (link to article in Madison Park Times)
Image credit: Madison Park Times

15. Additional Resources Office of Housing’s website
Seattle Rainbow Housing Report: “Aging in Community: Addressing LGBTQ Inequities in Housing and Senior Services”
List of buildings with affordable senior housing, funded by City of Seattle
Seattle Housing Authority’s Senior Housing Program
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Seattle Rainbow Housing Report: Karen Fredriksen Goldsen worked with OH to identify key housing and senior service challenges