This week Washington state’s Low Income Housing Institute celebrated the opening of 57 new apartments for working families at August Wilson Place in downtown Bellevue.
Monthly rent ranges from about $400 for a studio apartment to about $1,000 for a 3-bedroom apartment. The apartments were open to families and individuals making 60 percent or less of the area’s median income. A lottery whittled down the 300 rental applicants to 57.
The 57 apartments include 12 for homeless people, eight for veterans, and three for families with developmental disabilities.
Nearly a dozen sources funded the $17 million project, including the King County Vet and Human Service Levy, the state housing trust fund, federal funds, the Home Depot Foundation, and the non-profit ARCH.
August Wilson Place is located at 204 111th Ave. NE.
