Excerpt from Douglas Park Cooperative’s Low Income Maps and Data project.
HUV is the abbreviation for the Lake City Hub Urban Village area. It is the heart of Lake City’s civic core and contains the LC Seattle Public Library branch, Lake City’s Neighborhood Service Center, and the Lake City Community Center. Visit Douglas Park Cooperative’s blog post to view maps and more details (may not be visible through the Safari Mac browser, try Firefox or Explorer).
Here are the stats for the housing stock inside of the HUV ( info from King County ):
1,958 apartments
277 townhomes
236 condos
34 single family homes
2505 total housing units.Percentage of housing units that are rentals: 78%
City average of rentals to housing stock: 50%Number of low income subsidized rentals ( all six categories ): 505
Number of those that are Extremely Low Income units: 251
Percent of rental stock that is low income subsidized: 26%
Percent of rental stock that is ELI subsidized: 13%So the Office of Housing and Seattle Housing Authority have exceeded their balance point in the HUV by 6% and have exceeded the county average by 1% with just the homeless transitional housing stock. We have been accused as a community of being NIMBYs for requesting a moratorium on any further subsidized low income housing in our area, which is absurd when faced with these facts.
One more further division to make. The Office of Housing is trying to justify the inclusion of more ELI housing at the Fire Station 39 location by saying that Census Tract 2 can absorb more. The stats below are for the area of the HUV that includes Census Tracts 1 & 2 ( the area north of 125th ).
Number of apartments: 1183
Number of low income subsidized rentals ( all six categories ): 495
Number of those that are Extremely Low Income units: 251
Number of ELI with FS39 and Valor Apartments: 322
Percent of rental stock that is low income subsidized: 42%
Percent of rental stock that is ELI subsidized: 21%
Percent it will be with valor and FS39: 27%That really should give pause to anyone. That is 27% of the rental stock ( which is nearly 80% of all the housing stock ) will be for homeless transitional housing in our Hub Urban Village. This is not anywhere close to a thoughtful and balanced development. City policy and lawmakers are failing us.