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Wolcott Homes
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8124 Wolcott Ave S.
Seattle, WA 98118We teamed up with Homestead CLT to transform unfinished houses and lots into affordable homes for first time home buyers. - 47.529957 -122.26822
Wolcott Homes
Seattle, WA 98118
In 2008, during the housing crash, the bank foreclosed on a for-profit developer building homes in Seattle’s diverse Rainier Beach neighborhood. These vacant lots and unfinished houses on Wolcott Avenue remained untouched until nonprofit group Homestead Community Land Trust took them over. This is Homestead’s first building project, an integral part of their mission to ensure affordable homes for low-income families. Homestead hired Common Ground to help them finish the neighborhood’s completion and ensure these homes would be affordable. Homestead plans to resell them to low-income buyers with incomes less than $64,000 for a family of four. These three-bedroom homes will also be built sustainably, as they will be certified LEED for Homes-Silver, Built Smart, and more. All this is done without raising the original price and providing affordability to Seattle families.
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| Number and Types of Units | 15 single-family detached houses |
| Cost | $3.9 million |
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| Project Team |
Architect: Environmental Works General Contractor: Olympic General Contractors |
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LEED for Homes, Gold Level Pre-Certified Built Green Energy Star Built Smart with help from the City of Seattle |
| Opening Date | September 2011 |
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