Cathedral Commons: Cultivating Beloved Community

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You are warmly invited to join for conversation, connection, and creativity at this forum presented by the Affordable Housing Committee at Saint Mark’s Cathedral. We’ll share with Saint Mark’s members, neighbors, and community partners the good news of “repent and repair” as we prepare to welcome new neighbors to Cathedral Place, an affordable housing community on the property of the St. Nicholas School to the north of the cathedral. As part of this effort, we are telling the story of how we intend to co-create beloved community through a community-based organization that will offer services and support to the residents of Cathedral Place. We’re also sharing the history of our neighborhood and our own complicity in excluding Black residents from home ownership through the Visual Storytelling Project, a narrative art installation describing our relationship with the practice of redlining and racially restrictive covenants in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Let’s imagine together what beloved community and a flourishing neighborhood looks and feels like, and what it might ask of us to cultivate it.

Special Parish Forum: Affordable Housing Project Updates

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025

At a special Cathedral Commons forum on Dec. 10, the Affordable Housing Committee, along with partners Redwood Housing, Uncommon Bridges, and Kendall Clawson, shared key updates regarding the affordable housing project on the cathedral campus. Highlights include announcing a finalized joint development agreement between Saint Mark’s and Redwood Housing, previewing insights into design considerations, deepening community engagement, and discussing Saint Mark’s emerging community-based organization (CBO).

Learn about the history of the project up to this point here.


UPDATE: The slides from this forum are now available here. 

A video will be posted on this page when it is available.