Seattle City Councilmember Alex Pedersen recounted a conversation he had with a former “director of a city government department that relies on housing data” on Friday. They discussed the University District’s potential for affordable housing loss as it goes through a development wave, and as Pedersen recalled, the director was not aware of the vulnerable units of which Pedersen spoke, including roughly 100 affordable units on University Ave.
In 2017, a city-contracted housing data collection firm, Dupre and Scott Apartment Advisors, shut their doors, and with their closure went clarity on where the city’s below-market rental properties are located, properties which could be potentially preserved with council-backed “anti-displacement strategies.”
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