A Chief Seattle Club member with a rendering of ʔálʔal, which is set to open in 2021. Photo Courtesy Chief Seattle Club. Rendering, below, courtesy of Jones & Jones.“The building is named ʔálʔal, which means ‘home’ in Lushootseed, a Native American language of the Coast Salish people in the Seattle area. (It’s pronounced ‘all-all.’) Set to open in October 2021, the eight-story housing project will be built with the housing needs of one distinct community in mind — Native Americans, who in the Seattle area are seven times more likely than whites to be living in homelessness, according to a 2017 Seattle Human Services report.”
In “As Homelessness Rises in Seattle, So Does a Native American Housing Solution,” published 17 December 2020 in CityLab, Hallie Golden offers an account of this project, which was designed by Jones & Jones, whose principal Johnpaul Jones contributes to this season’s “Briefing.”
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