From the Seattle Housing Authority's press release:
The Seattle Housing Authority has completed and started leasing Hinoki, its fifth new residential building at Yesler, a neighborhood near downtown Seattle that is being redeveloped by SHA into a vibrant, new mixed-income community. Hinoki is located at E Yesler Way and 10th Ave S.
Hinoki features 136 units of housing affordable to people with low incomes. Its sustainable design includes rain gardens around the perimeter of the building to filter rainwater back into the ground instead of the storm sewer, photovoltaic panels to provide solar power to the building and energy saving appliances and ventilation systems. Residents will have access to a large central courtyard and playground, gardening plots, underground parking and bike storage. Some of the apartments at Hinoki are specifically designed for residents with hearing or visual impairment and others are “Breathe Easy” units designed for people with asthma and other respiratory health concerns. Three units can be licensed as in-home daycare businesses.
With the completion of Hinoki, SHA is well over halfway toward replacing the 561 Yesler Terrace public housing units previously on the site with new apartments for extremely low-income residents. In addition to replacing all of the older units, more than 1,100 additional affordable homes are being built, along with more than 2,500 market-rate rental apartments developed by private development partners.
Yesler Terrace was the city’s first public housing, built in 1940 by the then newly established Seattle Housing Authority. The redevelopment of Yesler Terrace began in 2013 after SHA, with the help of a Citizens Review Committee comprised of Yesler residents, surrounding neighbors, city officials, nonprofit service partners and citizens at large, shaped a plan for replacing Yesler Terrace’s aging housing and deteriorated infrastructure with a new community for Yesler residents and people across a spectrum of income levels.