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Green Acre Radio: Sustainable housing opens at Magnuson Park

Seattle non-profit Solid Ground has opened Brettler Family Place for 52 families.

by / March 18, 2011

Seattle non-profit Solid Ground has opened Brettler Family Place for 52 families.

Sustainable, energy-efficient urban housing that’s affordable? Solid Ground, a nonprofit dedicated to building community to end poverty, thought it sounded like a good idea. This week, the nonprofit opened Brettler Family Place on the site of the former Sand Point Navy base at Magnuson Park in Seattle. Fifty-two families are moving in.

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Martha Baskin

Martha Baskin

Martha Baskin is an environmental reporter, whose work on the subject began with a project for the King Conservation District. Green Acre Radio was born shortly afterward. Her work is currently supported by the Human Links Foundation. She was one of the founding reporters for Pacifica's Free Speech Radio News and has been a contributor to the National Radio Project's Making Contact.