Located on the Puget Sound between the Olympic and Cascade Mountains and internationally recognized as home to leading-edge companies like Microsoft and Starbucks, Seattle has attracted growth for decades. As a result, housing prices in the Puget Sound region have skyrocketed and sprawl now threatens to encroach upon the Cascade foothills. In other parts of Washington State, however, particularly rural farming areas, communities have been steadily losing residents and are struggling to maintain healthy economies.
We are grateful to the many partners who support our work in Washington.
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Denny Park Apartments in Seattle was the first project to meet Enterprise’s Green Communities™ criteria. Enterprise awarded $5.5 million in equity toward the construction of this healthy, energy-efficient, affordable, multi-family housing project. Since its completion in 2005, Denny Park has become home to 50 low- and extremely low-income individuals and families, some formerly homeless. Photo: Harry Connolly |
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Over the past 14 years, Enterprise has invested over $300 million to support affordable housing and community development in Washington State.
- We have financed the development of over 3,500 homes for low-income families in partnership with leading affordable housing developers and community development corporations throughout Washington State.
- Enterprise has helped lead the green affordable housing movement in Washington by supporting the construction of over 400 healthy, energy-efficient homes through the Green Communities™ Initiative and participating on the state’s task force for recommending an appropriate green building standard for projects using housing trust fund appropriations.
- Enterprise is a leading partner supporting the work of the Washington State Farmworker Housing Trust, the non-profit created at the request of U.S. Senator Patty Murray in 2003 to address the serious shortage of decent and affordable housing for the over 289,000 farmworkers and family members who labor in the fields and orchards in Washington.
Tesfai Gebrezgi was born in Ethiopia and has lived in public housing in Seattle for 11 years. His 12-year-old son’s severe asthma has required emergency hospitalization all too frequently in recent years. When Tesfai heard about the Enterprise-supported Breathe Easy homes at High Point in West Seattle, and learned about how they are specially designed for families with asthma, he immediately started filling out the necessary paperwork to move there. The Gebrezgi family moved to their new home at High Point in June 2006, and Tesfai says with relief that his son has not had any emergency visits to the hospital since moving.
“I don’t have to worry that my son could stop breathing at any minute from an asthma attack anymore – thanks to being able to live in a Breathe Easy home at High Point. Since we moved into our new home my son is doing much better. His medication dosage has been lowered, he can breathe better and he hasn’t had any attacks.”
Tesfai Gebrezgi, resident of a Breathe Easy Home at High Point
Enterprise Community Partners
411 First Avenue South, Suite 401
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone 206.223.4517
Fax 206.622.1820
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