This would be the University of Washington. Many other of our AAU public and private peers have various plans to help faculty with the cost of housing, ranging from university owned apartments and condos rented at subsidized rates to schemes where the university shares the cost of a house purchase, but also the equity. The Admin Bargaining Team’s Hal Sadofsky has conveniently omitted these, and their absence at UO, from his analysis of the cost of living at different AAU schools. Link here, please post links to other programs you know of in the comments:
UW-Madison has subsidized “University Houses” for faculty. A nice 3 bedroom is $1656 a month. One of my Econ profs (not Karl) lived there. https://www.housing.wisc.edu/apartments/leasing/rates/
UC system – heavily subsidized mortgage rates, with low down payments. (The program is not accepting new applicants at some campuses this year, however it still lowers the cost of housing for all participants.) https://www.ucop.edu/loan-programs/_files/mopbrochure.pdf
UCSB – the total amount isn’t clear, but it seems to be at least $10K a year for 10 years as a salary supplement for housing, which you can take it as a lump sum for a down payment: https://evc.ucsb.edu/faculty-resources/faculty-housing/loans
MIT – $100K for a downpayment, 0% interest and forgiven if you stay for 7 years: https://provost.mit.edu/resources/faculty-housing-assistance-program/nifal/
Colorado – two plans, one with lower interest, the other where they’ll “loan” you $130K for a downpayment. “No principal or interest payments are due during the term of a shared appreciation FHAP loan which is funded by the University. Upon the maturity of the FHAP shared appreciation loan, the University is repaid the principal amount of the loan, and in lieu of interest being paid on the FHAP loan, the University is also paid a share of appreciation of the value of the home purchased with the FHAP loan.” https://www.cu.edu/doc/fhapdescription0924pdf
University of Alabama – not AAU, but included in memory of my Dad who went there on a baseball scholarship which became a ROTC scholarship on how to run an artillery battery, because of the Nazis. In any case it’s $13K in free money vs. $0 from UO’s Johnson Hall: https://www.uab.edu/humanresources/home/benefits/perks/blazer-home
UC Irvine has subsidized housing you buy from the university and then you sell back. UCSb have people 50k for down payment and then would pay down their interest rates too.
Faculty at UCSb can live in subsided grad student housing for first 3 years.