Project Summary
During 2001 we moved, renovated and sold a classic, three-bedroom bungalow in West Seattle’s Delridge neighborhood. The house had been slated for demolition to make way for a new public library. Rather than tear it down, the house became an opportunity to build community.The project was supported by the efforts of 80 volunteers as well as by partnerships with the City of Seattle, Institute for Community Economics, Impact Capital, Common Ground, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association, Washington Mutual, SAFECO and others.
As Seattle’s first-ever community land trust home, the house will always be affordable to low- and moderate-income residents, no matter how many times it is resold, or how expensive housing prices in Delridge become.
 Delridge house during the move. |
 Owner Tina in front of her home. |
