February 20, 2022
80-unit residential building for low-income and unhoused Indigenous people opens in Seattle
Author: Alaa Elassar
(CNN)A newly built residential complex in Seattle is offering unhoused Indigenous people a new lease on life.
The Chief Seattle Club has opened the doors to ʔálʔal, an 80-unit apartment building reserved for low-income and unhoused urban Natives in Washington's King County.
ʔálʔal, pronounced "all-all," means "home" in Lushootseed, an Indigenous language spoken by local Salish tribes.
The nonprofit organization, which says it's "dedicated to physically and spiritually supporting American Indian ...