This land handout will bring apartments to Lynnwood light rail station

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In a few years, up to 167 low-rent apartments will be built at Lynnwood City Center Station, on Sound Transit’s leftover construction land.

The proposed complex, by nonprofit Housing Hope, includes a medical-dental clinic, child care, the Kindred Kitchen public cafe and job training program, and a behavioral health center including youth services. A tiny tributary of fish-passable Scriber Creek, that’s now in a 512-foot-long pipe, will be daylighted and lined with plants and trees.

Sound Transit will sell the 2.4-acre site, appraised at $4.8 million, for the nominal price of $167,000. The land was a temporary parking lot during years of station construction, while an environmental report dubbed its buried stream “Park-N-Ride Creek.”

Housing Hope will develop one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments in eight-story buildings, for households earning 60% or less of area median income. Currently, those levels in Lynnwood are $55,155 yearly for a single person, or $75,660 for a family of four.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/this-land-handout-will-bring-apartments-to-lynnwood-light-rail-station/

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1. Good idea. I hope that it works out that way, low-income housing for those truly in the need for.

Thing is, that the cost of living there is pretty high already, will these people living there have to commute ungodly lengths to get qualifying jobs that pay the required salaries needed? Would be a good follow-up articles/or series on how they do. Many cities are dealing w/ this Real Estate being priced out of range for a lot of people.