CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION approving the Seattle Housing Authority’s use of certain excess revenues from the sale, lease, or other disposition of property in the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area for the provision of services that benefit the residents of the community.
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WHEREAS, in 2010, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) created the Choice Neighborhoods program to leverage significant public and private dollars to support locally driven strategies that address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation; and
WHEREAS, Choice Neighborhoods is focused on three core goals:
1. Housing: Replace distressed public and assisted housing with high-quality mixed-income housing that is well-managed and responsive to the needs of the surrounding neighborhood;
2. People: Improve outcomes of households living in the target housing related to employment and income, health, and children’s education; and
3. Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families’ choices about their community; and
WHEREAS, in 2011 the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) was one of the first housing authorities nationally to receive a Choice Neighborhoods grant award, ultimately totaling $30 million, to catalyze the redevelopment of the Yesler Terrace public housing community; and
WHEREAS, The City of Seattle and SHA entered into a Cooperative Agreement via adoption of Ordinance 123961 that identifies roles and responsibilities of the parties, including unit delivery targets and aspirational funding commitments; and
WHEREAS, the Cooperative Agreement required SHA to use all proceeds from the sale, lease, or other disposition of property in the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area for redevelopment activities, including constructions of replacement housing; 30% and 60% AMI housing units; public infrastructure; and other community amenities such as pocket parks, P-Patch Community Gardens, and the 10th Ave Hillclimb; and
WHEREAS, the Cooperative Agreement also allowed SHA, in the event there were net revenues from the sale, lease, or other disposition of property in the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area that are in excess of what is needed to fund redevelopment activities, to develop a proposal, in coordination with the Office of Housing and consistent with HUD requirements, for City Council approval regarding the use of those net revenues; and
WHEREAS, SHA has completed all required infrastructure improvements and has completed, has under construction or in permitting or design, or has otherwise caused the construction of (i) all 561 replacement units, (ii) 390 60% AMI units (exceeding the target by 100), (iii) 688 80% AMI units, and (iv) 2016 market rate units; and
WHEREAS, HUD has directed that any remaining proceeds from property sale, lease or other disposition in the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area must be used for costs associated with the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area; and
WHEREAS, during redevelopment, SHA funded an array of services for residents of the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area, including education and youth development, health and wellbeing, community and resident leadership and employment and adult education; and
WHEREAS, SHA proposes to use the net revenues from the sale, lease or other disposition of property in the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area that are in excess of what is needed to fund redevelopment activities to provide and continue providing services that are critical to the quality of life and opportunity for the residents of the Yesler Terrace community and that are envisioned by and outlined within the Social Infrastructure component of the Seattle Housing Authority’s Yesler Terrace Development Transformation Plan, including economic opportunity services, educational attainment and career building, youth-focused programming, social and health services, community building activities, and similar services (the “Services”); and
WHEREAS, SHA has conferred with the City’s Office of Housing about this proposal and the Office of Housing supports the proposal; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE, THE MAYOR CONCURRING, THAT:
Section 1. The Seattle City Council approves the Seattle Housing Authority’s proposal to use the net revenues from the sale, lease, or other disposition of property in the Yesler Terrace Redevelopment Area that are in excess of what is needed to fund redevelopment activities to provide and continue providing services, including, but not limited to: career coaching employment and education support; case management; one to one/small group youth tutoring; “Team Read” (youth reading support); Vietnamese Teatime; and Healthy Homes Care Coordination.
Adopted by the City Council the ________ day of _________________________, 2023, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this ________ day of _________________________, 2023.
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President ____________ of the City Council
The Mayor concurred the ________ day of _________________________, 2023.
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Bruce A. Harrell, Mayor
Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2023.
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Scheereen Dedman, City Clerk
(Seal)