Nonprofit buys apartment complex for $1 in a rural northeast Washington town, hoping to preserve needed housing

By: Monica Carrillo-Casas

Outlets: The Spokesman-Review

Published: March 12, 2026

Words: 487

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago


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A four-member volunteer board in a rural Eastern Washington town sold an apartment complex for $1 , hoping the move will help protect one of the town’s only low-income options.

Rural Resources bought an apartment complex in Metaline Falls, a town of about 284 people near the Canadian border, for $1 after being awarded $4.7 million from the Washington State Department of Commerce to renovate it. Owned previously by a board of volunteers, Bryan Raines, …

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