365 results for: Homes and Housing
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Flier protesting displacement of low-income renters, Seattle, September 29, 1974
In September 1974, low-income tenants living in three old houses in Seattle’s Cascade neighborhood received eviction notices. The owner had requested that the city rezone the properties on Minor Avenue N. for manufacturing. On September 29, some 75 people listened as speakers protested the rezoning and evictions. The Cascade Community Council organized the protest and also initiated the Cascade Shelter…
ID Number:2002.23.1.37.1
Date:1974
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Good Friday Worship Vigil in the South End, 1988
This flier advertises a vigil to protest against the demolition of affordable housing in Seattle's south end. It specifically mentions homes demolished to make way for I-90 and Seattle school district plans to tear down more houses. The vigil was held at 8:30 AM on Friday, April 1, 1988, which was Good Friday that year, at 4419 South Dawson Street…
ID Number:2002.23.2.39.1
Date:1988
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"There Goes the Neighborhood" flier, Seattle, October 1987
Founded in 1987 to protest the demolition of low-income housing stock in Seattle, Operation Homestead first became known for its occupation of vacant downtown apartment buildings. The organization was an eclectic group of social workers, college students, pastors, unhoused people, retired people and others who had spent years trying to convince the city and the state to build more affordable…
ID Number:2002.23.2.50.1
Date:1987
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Homesharing for Seniors brochure, 1979
This brochure promotes Homesharing for Seniors, a service sponsored by the Stevens Neighborhood Housing Improvement Program, in cooperation with the community activist group Gray Panthers. It lists benefits to sharing a home, such as saving money, physical security, and companionship. The Homesharing service matched up seniors who owned homes that were too large for themselves alone with seniors who were…
ID Number:2002.23.4.12.1
Date:1979
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Operation Homestead leaflet, 1991
The building of the Seattle Convention Center and other buildings in the 1980s displaced many low-income residents in the downtown area. In 1988, housing activists, displaced and homeless people, and others formed Operation Homestead to take direct action. In 1989 they estimated that the city had 3,000 to 5,000 people experiencing homelessness, and that some 2,000 people had been displaced…
ID Number:2002.23.5.32.1
Date:1991
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Operation Homestead poster, Seattle, May 1991
Through the 1980s, low-income housing was steadily disappearing in Seattle. Many older downtown apartment buildings which offered affordable housing were condemned by their landowners as, in many cases, it was more profitable to have an abandoned property then to pay for management and upkeep. The direct-action group Operation Homestead, formed in 1988, occupied abandoned buildings to draw attention to this…
ID Number:2002.23.8.7.1
Date:1991
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Candlelight March - No Police Station poster, September 1981
In 1981, Mayor Charles Royer proposed a new police precinct station for Seattle's Central Area, and the recommendation was approved by the City Council. The plan for the site, located at East Yesler Way and 23rd Avenue South, drew controversy and criticism from local residents, who protested the demolition of a city-owned four-plex at the site, and advocated instead for…
ID Number:2006.42.7
Date:1981
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House constructed by Long Building Company, Seattle, circa 1920
J. Stanley Long (1883-1959) was a contractor who built homes in Seattle neighborhoods for more than 50 years. Born in Ohio, Long studied law in Chicago, and moved to Seattle in 1906. In Seattle, rather than practicing law, Long focused his energies on the growth potential of the local housing market. Long built and sold his first house in 1906.…
ID Number:2010.76.1.1
Date:Circa 1920
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Houses constructed by Long Building Company, Seattle, circa 1920
J. Stanley Long (1883-1959) was a contractor who built homes in Seattle neighborhoods for more than 50 years. Born in Ohio, Long studied law in Chicago, and moved to Seattle in 1906. In Seattle, rather than practicing law, Long focused his energies on the growth potential of the local housing market. Long built and sold his first house in 1906.…
ID Number:2010.76.1.2
Date:Circa 1920
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Houses constructed by Long Building Company, Seattle, circa 1920
J. Stanley Long (1883-1959) was a contractor who built homes in Seattle neighborhoods for more than 50 years. Born in Ohio, Long studied law in Chicago, and moved to Seattle in 1906. In Seattle, rather than practicing law, Long focused his energies on the growth potential of the local housing market. Long built and sold his first house in 1906.…
ID Number:2010.76.1.3
Date:Circa 1920