Canopy Apartments are a welcoming community rooted in White Center, offering high-quality, affordable housing surrounded by health and family service providers. The community is designed to help individuals and households of all sizes grow, thrive, and feel a sense of belonging.
Like the rest of the region, White Center has experienced rising housing costs and limited construction of new affordable, family-sized apartments. After years of community engagement by the White Center Community Development Association (CDA), a vision to combat displacement took shape. The community wanted to establish a family resource center and an affordable housing complex in the same location to help anchor and meet the needs of its residents.
In 2017, Community Roots and the White Center CDA joined forces to bring that vision to life in the built environment. In 2024, they broke ground on the project, with Community Roots serving as the owner and operator of the housing development, and the White Center CDA leading the HUB and managing its tenants and programming.
Located on the site of a former food bank and public health center, the White Center HUB will create a place of “Hope, Unity and Belonging.” The HUB will be home to Southwest Youth and Family Services, HealthPoint, FEEST, and the YES! Foundation. The development will also include a coffee shop, recording studio, event hall, commercial kitchen, and maker’s space, all surrounding a playground at the center of the plaza.
Next door to the HUB is the Canopy Apartments that offer one- to four-bedroom apartments to households earning between 30% and 60% of area median income. When finished, the project will add 76 new, affordable apartments in the neighborhood, 59 of which will be family-sized with two to four bedrooms.
Currently, cabinets, countertops, and appliances are being installed in the apartments. In the HUB, drywall and painting are underway. The team is preparing for the development to open in October with applications opening in August.
