Rainier Vista Replacement Housing 

Completed to date: 262 units (54%)
In the pipeline: 222 units (46%)

54 percent of the low-income housing units originally located at Rainier Vista have been replaced and occupied by low-income tenants. The remainder are either currently under construction or are in the planning stages with funding identified.

Replacement housing plan

Replacement housing on site at Rainier Vista:

• 310 units of low-income housing will be replaced on the current site. The first phase of Rainier Vista is complete and leased up, including 125 replacement units.

• Providence Health Systems completed Peter Gamelin house, a 78-unit apartment building for low-income elderly in April 2005.

• Housing Resources Group and AIDS Housing of Washington have built the 50-unit Genesee house, 39 units of which are replacement housing targeted for people with disabilities.

Off-site replacement housing:

• Impact Property Services operates the Shirley Bridge Bungalows in West Seattle for AIDS Housing of Washington. Shirley Bridge Bungalows, six housing units for low-income individuals or families with disabilities, is built on property owned by the Seattle Housing Authority and leased long-term to AIDS housing.

• SHA purchased eight townhomes in the Crown Hill area of Seattle and is leasing them to families with incomes below 30 percent of the area median.

• SHA purchased a 42-unit apartment building, Westwood Heights East, in West Seattle. Six two-bedroom units in the building contribute to Rainier Vista replacement housing.

• 37 units for low-income people have been built at the Dakota, a new family housing development in the Rainier Valley, in partnership with Southeast Effective Development.

Completed Units

Construction at Rainier Vista is underway. For additional information about Rainer Vista, click here.