Housing in Brief: Seattle Gets More Transparent About Its Homelessness Crisis
June 02, 2022 by This article takes a brief look at housing initiatives that happened in Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Seattle launched a new homelessness transparency dashboard to support its One Seattle Homelessness Action Plan. The plan aimed to end homelessness in the area with a $118 million initiative managed by the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. In response to escalating rent costs at a Chinatown apartment building in Los Angeles, the City Council has initiated steps to purchase the property Originally developed in the 1980s with a rent cap agreement that has since expired, tenants facing up to a 30% rent hike supported the council’s move to acquire and renovate the building using a $46 million reserve fund loan. In San Francisco Mayor London Breed allocated $6.5 million in the city’s budget over two years to combat homelessness among transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals by 2027. This comprehensive initiative involves collaboration across multiple city departments and nonprofits specializing in TGNC issues, aiming to address the disproportionately high rates of homelessness within this community.