Social housing news

A useful breakdown of who actually gets the units: the first 15 go to the lowest-income households, the next 45 to households earning up to 50% of area median income, with half the building ultimately affordable. The mixed-income model in practice.

The board approved a $60.9 million purchase of Elara at the Market, a 150-unit Belltown building, moving it from private ownership into public hands. Three years after voters created the developer, this is the first building it will actually operate.

DSA's housing arm sets out four principles it says social housing must meet: redistribution of land from landowners, democratic control by residents, sustainable and high-quality construction, and universal access. The strategy it proposes is tenant unionism first, on the argument that nobody wins social housing without an organized base to demand it. Published in English and Spanish.

A framework report from UC Berkeley that measures social housing against three principles: protecting the social good, advancing social and racial equity, and securing participatory governance for residents. Useful as a yardstick for evaluating whatever California's state study produces.