Common Ground Community Housing Trust has completed Crail Cottages, an eight-home development in Wenatchee designed to provide permanently affordable homeownership.

Wenatchee and East Wenatchee are restructuring the joint program the two cities use to address homelessness, replacing a seven-member task force with a four-member governing board as the partnership begins looking beyond emergency shelter toward longer-term housing.

Most construction already banks heavily on wood in the form of small dimensional lumber; the mass timber movement is focused on much bigger components made by gluing layers of smaller pieces of wood together. Cross-laminated timber and glue-laminated timber, two of the most common mass timber building products today, can be used for the columns, beams, walls and floor decks of buildings.

The City of Chelan will make up to $50,000 available for affordable housing projects this year through a new grant process approved by the City Council Aug. 25.

The council adopted Resolution 2026-1488, establishing an Affordable Housing Grant Funding Policy and opening the application period from Sept. 1 through Oct. 15.

The city of Wenatchee is reviewing a proposal that would replace two existing downtown buildings with a four-story YWCA North Central Washington housing and services center at 212 First St.

The project would add 18 housing units and expanded support-space for people experiencing homelessness, while also consolidating YWCA operations at the site, according to planning documents obtained by Source ONE News.

A Regional Housing Summit, hosted by Our Valley Our Future (OVOF) in Leavenworth, explored housing at a regional scale and highlighted the practical, local solutions to increasing supply and affordability on June 11.