Social Housing on MacWorkshttps://macworks.dev/tags/social-housing/Recent content in Social Housing on MacWorksHugoen2026-05-23https://macworks.dev/docs/week/seattle/seattle-2026-05-23/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://macworks.dev/docs/week/seattle/seattle-2026-05-23/<details> <summary>Sources</summary> <div class="markdown-inner"> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@FOX13Seattle">FOX 13 Seattle (YouTube)</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.macworks.dev/fox13seattle/rss">FOX 13 Seattle / @fox13seattle</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.macworks.dev/KING5Seattle/rss">KING 5 News / @KING5Seattle</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@KING5Seattle">KING 5 Seattle (YouTube)</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.macworks.dev/KIRO7Seattle/rss">KIRO 7 / @KIRO7Seattle</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@KIRO7News">KIRO 7 News (YouTube)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@KOMONews">KOMO News (YouTube)</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.macworks.dev/komonews/rss">KOMO News / @komonews</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@KQESSeattle">KQES Chinese Public Radio Seattle (YouTube)</a></li> <li><a href="https://sammamish.news/feed/">Sammamish Comment</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SeattleChannel">Seattle Channel (YouTube)</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.macworks.dev/SeattleParks/rss">Seattle Parks / @SeattleParks</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.macworks.dev/seattletimes/rss">The Seattle Times / @seattletimes</a></li> </ul> </div> </details> <h1 id="seattle-local--2026-05-23">Seattle Local — 2026-05-23<a class="anchor" href="#seattle-local--2026-05-23">#</a></h1> <h2 id="top-story">Top Story<a class="anchor" href="#top-story">#</a></h2> <p>Three years after voters approved the creation of a publicly owned social housing developer, the organization has made its first major move by purchasing the luxury Elara apartment building near Pike Place Market for $60 million. The 150-unit complex in Belltown will be converted into permanently affordable housing, testing a novel social housing model for the United States.</p>