Capitol Hill Housing

By Katie Bradley, with Tess Riski and Madison Vucci

Student Project Assistants, 2017-18

Note: For the third year in a row, our student assistants planned a campus event in support of Affordable Housing Week in King County, May 14 – May 18. This year’s team – Katie Bradley, Tess Riski, and Madison Vucci – decided to make a documentary focused on the gentrification of the Central District and the impact it has on access to affordable housing. On May 15, they hosted the premiere screening of their documentary and led a panel discussion after the film. Afterward, they reflected on what went well, what could be improved, what surprised them, and what they learned.

First, here’s the film on YouTube:

Our purpose for making the documentary, “Central Division,” was to showcase the impact of gentrification in the Central District in relation to affordable housing. As Seattle University students, we recognize how close our school is to the Central District and how many of our peers and students live off campus there. In our four years of attending Seattle University, we have witnessed the changing the Central District and have questioned the impact we have as students individually and as an institution as a whole on the black community in the Central District.

We decided to make a documentary so that it could be passed along to other communities and leave a longer impression as a conversation starter for Affordable Housing Week. Continue reading →

June 19, 2018July 30, 2018 by catherinehinrichsen Categories: Collaboration, Events, Family Homelessness, Films about Homelessness, JournalismTags: advocacy, affordable housing, Affordable Housing Week, Byrd Barr Place, Capitol Hill Housing, Cary Moon, Catholic Housing Services, Charles Mudede, Seattle for Everyone, Seattle Office of Housing, storytelling, SU Office of Multicultural Affairs, The Stranger 2 Comments

Edited by Shan Yonamine, Project Assistant, Project on Family Homelessness

Note: For the second year in a row, our student assistants planned a campus event in support of Affordable Housing Week in King County, May 15-22. This year’s team — Khadija Diallo, Mandy Rusch and Shan Yonamine — decided to focus on “Renters’ Rights 101.” Afterward, they reflected on what worked well, what could be improved, what surprised them and what they learned.

The purpose of Renters’ Rights 101 was to give attendees a “crash course” in rental laws and best practices so that they would feel more prepared to navigate the Seattle rental market. Our target audience was students, new renters and soon-to-be renters in the greater Seattle area.

AHW RR101 Poster — Our digital design assistant, Mandy, created this graphic of a fist grasping a key as part of the branding for our event.

Continue reading →

June 6, 2017June 9, 2017 by catherinehinrichsen Categories: Collaboration, Events, Family HomelessnessTags: affordable housing, Affordable Housing Week, Be:Seattle, Capitol Hill Housing, renters, renters' rights, seattle university, Tenants Union 5 Comments

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“Central Division” — Behind the Scenes on the Making of the Gentrification Documentary

By Katie Bradley, with Tess Riski and Madison Vucci

Student Project Assistants, 2017-18

“Power in Constituents” — Renters’ Rights 101, SU’s Affordable Housing Week Event

Edited by Shan Yonamine, Project Assistant, Project on Family Homelessness