Last Saturday, Africatown Community Land Trust co-founder Wyking Garrett unveiled a $107 million investment plan for the Black community during the organization’s annual State of Africatown address. Garrett said the initiative reaffirms a long term strategy to strengthen Black homeownership, reduce displacement and build economic stability in Seattle’s Central District.
Garrett said the investment plan is designed to turn the theme of repair into measurable progress by expanding homeownership, supporting Black owned businesses and preventing displacement in the Central District. The effort reflects a coordinated approach that ties economic development, housing stability and youth violence prevention into a broader framework aimed at sustaining a thriving Black community.
Among the organization’s goals are ending homelessness, reducing youth crime and violence, strengthening Black owned businesses and expanding first time homeownership pathways. Together, those priorities form the foundation of what Garrett described as repair, an effort to address long standing barriers to economic mobility and community preservation…