Plymouth Housing is featured in a May 2025 article in Seattle Magazine, “The Fight for Affordable Housing,” which you can read here. Searetha Simons, a resident at Sylvia Odom’s Place, is pictured and quoted in Rob Smith’s look at how nonprofit organizations and corporate philanthropists are helping to create and preserve affordable homes in Seattle.

Searetha Simons. Photo by John Vicory for Seattle Magazine

Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Searetha Simons has lived at Sylvia Odom’s place — an affordable housing complex in downtown Seattle owned and operated by Seattle nonprofit Plymouth Housing — since it opened almost nine years ago…. She first moved into a Plymouth-operated complex back in 2013 — July 30, to be exact….

“Today, Simons considers Sylvia Odom’s her forever home. It’s a place she can host her five children and six grandkids. Nearby, downtown merchants know her by name.

“‘If there’s one thing that I want people to know and understand is that supportive housing is really important,’ says Simons, who has served on Plymouth’s board of directors and is an active volunteer. ‘I’m grateful that people with long histories of drug, alcohol, and mental health issues can be housed. That means so much to me.’”