Spokane is taking steps to provide more affordable housing. | Stock Photo
Spokane is taking steps to provide more affordable housing. | Stock Photo
Spokane officials highlighted the city's low-income housing shortage while planning to build more units to increase housing opportunities.
Spokane’s housing shortage has increased because of COVID-19. However, seeing the shortage, a nonprofit organization is constructing a low-income housing project, the Sinto Commons, that will let low-income families live within their means, KREM 2 reported.
"A project like Sinto Commons is going to be one part of the larger solution, but we obviously need way more housing," Community Frameworks CEO Deb Elzinga said, KREM news reported.
The Spokane City Council has also approved a small sales tax increase to pay for incoming affordable housing.
"Literally, thousands of units are needed to fill the gap that exists. We've dedicated half of the apartment homes to go to people who have been experiencing homelessness," Elzinga said, KREM reported. "People who have already been struggling — the poor, Black people, and communities of color have been particularly hit hard."
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