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From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes

  • Written by Susanne Schindler, Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomesActivists in Seattle gather signatures to put a social housing initiative on the ballot. In early 2025, voters passed the measure, which implements a payroll tax on high incomes to fund the program.House Our Neighbors, CC BY-SA

Seattle astounded housing advocates around the country in February 2025, when roughly two-thirds of voters approved a...

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