Large metro areas across the U.S. are seemingly facing the same obstacle — a shortage of housing inventory that is clashing with rising population levels, which serves to push the cost of living ...

My work in Seattle on affordable housing issues dates to 1969. After graduating with a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Washington, I became the first housing planner at the ...

SEATTLE — In a televised debate, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell tried to stress his experience in city politics while his challenger Katie Wilson painted him as out-of-touch with voters. The hour long, ...

SEATTLE — State officials said an illegal homeless encampment that recently made headlines because of its new swimming pool won’t be removed until everyone who is living there has an option to move ...

Ask Gregg Colburn, assistant professor of real estate at the University of Washington, what causes homelessness, and he’ll tell you that it’s not poverty, drug addiction or mental illness. To find the ...

Grant Hindsley for The New York Times Ms. Wilson’s housing-heavy platform and social media ... and then rode Greyhound buses ...

Confronting the problem of affordable housing isn’t new for the Seattle area, but dynamics in the local and national economy are making constructive responses more difficult. Consider Seattle in 1980.

The Seattle City Council recently approved a $2 million dollar loan for the city’s social housing developer. That’s a public development authority that will manage publicly financed housing in the ...