New Licton Springs Housing For Chronically Homeless Opens

SEATTLE, WA — Local officials celebrated the opening of a new supportive housing apartment building in Licton Springs for the chronically homeless on Tuesday. The Clement Place building has 100 studio units, and is one of four housing projects that got funding in 2016 from a now-expired housing levy.

Clement Place will be run by the Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC), and will offer 24-7 wraparound services for residents. Seattle put about $9 million toward the project.

The project received funding in 2016 through the Seattle Housing Levy, which expired in 2016, but was renewed by voters that same year with over 70 percent support. Other buildings that got funding in 2016 are coming online in 2019, including the 59-unit Compass Broadview building along Greenwood Avenue North, which includes 12 units for the homeless. The Seattle Housing Authority's Red Cedar building, with 119 units for low-income individuals and families, is set to open at the former Yesler Terrace development sometime this summer.

The Tony Lee apartments in Lake City, which got about $10 million in levy and city funds in 2016, opened in October with 69 mixed units for people earning between 30 and 60 percent of the area median income.

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