The Center Square) – More than 10,000 applicants are vying for 15 rent-reduced apartments under a new Seattle affordable housing program funded by a city tax on workers who make more than $1 million a year.
Amazon, Microsoft and other companies fought the tax, but voters approved it in a 2025 referendum.
The program was expected to create only several hundred apartments a year, as the so-called social housing developer constructed new buildings…