13-04-2016 22:28 via thestranger.com

How Lisa Herbold Wants to Save Seattle's Affordable Housing

by Heidi Groover"We have no strategy in our affordable housing goals to deal with preservation," says Seattle City Council member Lisa Herbold. "I think that is a big problem." City of Seattle
In the spring of 2014, low-income tenants at an apartment building in Ballard had taken on what has become a classic Seattle battle: fighting a wealthy real estate developer.
The building, called the Lockhaven, had once offered apartments from $650 to $1,050 a month, an affordable anomaly in an increasingl
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