Seattle’s Innovation for Unlocking Homeownership
Join Just Communities for a live conversation on how PAD is redefining land development by centering homeowners, preventing displacement, and creating pathways to long-term wealth building. Overview Homeownership has long been one of the primary ways families build stability and generational wealth. Yet for many homeowners, especially lower-income and legacy homeowners, the barriers to improving or expanding their property are financial, technical, and structural. The Partnership for ADU Development (PAD) is a City of Seattle pilot program designed to address those barriers directly. Through a co-development model using ground leases, PAD enables homeowners to partner with a mission-driven developer to...