Despite support, Everett housing tenants face uncertainty

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EVERETT — The Everett Housing Authority is preparing to start a two-year process of moving 244 households from Baker Heights, now that federal officials granted permission to sell the public housing complex.

Baker Heights includes a few dozen one-story buildings in north Everett’s Delta neighborhood. The cost of fixing the World War II-era structures — an estimated $42 million — is prohibitively expensive. Selling the land could net the housing authority millions of dollars to pay for new development.

“It’s been our biggest property for (more than) 70 years, so it’s a big milestone for the agency,” executive director Ashley Lommers-Johnson said.

To let tenants know more about the plans, the housing authority has scheduled meetings on Wednesday and Thursday.

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1. would keep 3.6 acres .. to build 60 new affordable homes.

That sounds so overcrowded to me now.

I left Everett in 1974, never looked back, family are telling me the incredible housing prices there now.
The cheap lil 1906 house I was renting back then has sold for over 250 K...it is tiny!

We bought a 3 bd/2bath, bungalow on a wooded acre, IN town, here for 100K.