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King County, Seattle receive federal homeless assistance award of $19.7 million
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The City of Seattle and King County have been awarded $19,683,354 in federal McKinney Homeless Assistance funds for housing programs and support services for homeless people. The award was announced today by King County Executive Ron Sims and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, following the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announcement of $1.6 billion awarded nationwide.
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The City of Seattle and King County have been awarded $19,683,354 in federal McKinney Homeless Assistance funds for housing programs and support services for homeless people. The award was announced today by King County Executive Ron Sims and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, following the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announcement of $1.6 billion awarded nationwide."The McKinney grants fund the vital housing and supportive services that help to stabilize lives and break the cycle of homelessness," said Sims, co-chair of the Committee to End Homelessness Governing Board and deputy secretary-designee to HUD. "Our federal and local governments must work together to make sure our most vulnerable residents are not abandoned, particularly in these extraordinary economic times."
"These grants are critical as we work to end homelessness by helping people find safe and stable housing to rebuild their lives," said Mayor Nickels, who sits on the Committee to End Homelessness Governing Board. "The McKinney funds are especially important in our efforts to preserve basic human services in a time of economic crisis."
Community-based organizations joined with the City of Seattle and King County to submit the annual joint application for the McKinney funding that allows county and local governments and their many partners to provide essential housing and supportive services for homeless people.
The McKinney funding will leverage an additional $54.4 million from other federal, state and local sources, including United Way of King County and private foundations. The funding is critical to the ongoing work of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County and the implementation of the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness.
"The McKinney-Vento program was the first direct, modern federal recognition of the problem of homelessness in our country," said Bill Block, Project Manager, Committee to End Homelessness in King County. "It is significant that, even in these hard times, this cornerstone of support remains solid."
The majority of the award sustains the operations of 62 existing housing and supportive service programs that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. A total of 792 units of transitional housing, 795 units of permanent housing for homeless people with disabilities, and two Safe Haven facilities that offer supportive housing for severely mentally ill adults who have been homeless will be funded. In addition, the Compass Center will receive $140,085 for its new Renton Veterans Program to be located in Auburn, providing 22 units of permanent supportive housing for disabled veterans.
The award also includes funding for the Safe Harbors Homeless Management Information System. Safe Harbors collects data on the services provided to homeless people in about 170 different programs throughout King County. The aggregated data helps local governments and nonprofit agencies identify trends in homelessness and fund and support the programs most effective in bringing an end to homelessness
The chart below provides detail on the Homeless Assistance Awards.
For more information on the programs and projects to be funded by the McKinney grant funds, please contact either Eileen Denham, City of Seattle McKinney Programs Coordinator, 206-684-0915 or Cheryl Markham, Manager, King County Housing and Community Development Program, 206-263-9067.
Seattle/King County Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Awards for 2009-2010
This information reflects the award for the 2008 Seattle-King County Consolidated application for McKinney funding as announced by HUD on February 20, 2009
Project Sponsor / Project Name |
Award |
# Units ** |
FundingTerm |
Compass Center-Renton Veterans Program |
$140,085 |
22 | 1 year |
Building Changes-Lyon Building |
$387,191 |
40 | 1 year |
Salvation Army William Booth House |
$253,988 |
43 | 1 year |
Archdiocesan Housing Authority St. Martin's on Westlake |
$197,739 |
53 | 1 year |
Kent Youth and Family Services Watson Manor |
$38,134 |
8 | 1 year |
Downtown Emergency Service Center Kerner-Scott Safe Haven |
$443,471 |
25 | 1 year |
YWCA Family Village |
$78,878 |
20 | 1 year |
Plymouth Housing Group - Coming Home |
$492,048 |
150 | 1 year |
Community Psychiatric Clinic Harbor House Safe Haven |
$348,156 |
20 | 1 year |
Archdiocesan Housing Authority Rose of Lima |
$105,422 |
13 | 1 year |
YWCA Anita Vista |
$57,320 |
14 | 1 year |
Solid Ground Broadview |
$158,620 |
20 | 1 year |
Church Council of Greater Seattle - The Homelessness Project |
$57,278 |
12 | 1 year |
Salvation Army Hickman House |
$77,838 |
10 | 1 year |
Compass Center Mary Witt/Rosa Parks |
$26,284 |
10 | 1 year |
Solid Ground Washington Journey Home |
$507,350 |
Services | 1 year |
Hopelink Family Transitional Housing |
$121,939 |
20 | 1 year |
Compass Cascade Women's Program |
$80,012 |
32 | 1 year |
YWCA Windermere |
$29,683 |
4 | 1 year |
New Beginnings Transitional Housing |
$326,054 |
17 | 1 year |
Community Psychiatric Clinic Cedar House |
$168,153 |
8 | 1 year |
YouthCare Straley House |
$105,602 |
12 | 1 year |
Friends of Youth Arbor House |
$123,062 |
14 | 1 year |
Church Council of Greater Seattle Transitions Program |
$81,370 |
12 | 1 year |
Eastside Domestic Violence Program My Friends Place |
$251,744 |
10 | 1 year |
$63,258 |
6 | 1 year | |
Workforce Development Council Homeless Intervention Project |
$1,149,355 |
Services | 1 year |
Archdiocesan Housing Authority Dorothy Day House |
$25,422 |
17 | 1 year |
YouthCare Ravenna House |
$151,856 |
12 | 1 year |
YWCA Opportunity Place |
$114,450 |
29 | 1 year |
Seattle Housing Authority Beacon House |
$9,896 |
6 | 1 year |
Solid Ground-Sandpoint Families |
$299,978 |
26 | 1 year |
$23,579 |
6 | 1 year | |
Downtown Emergency Service Center 1811 Eastlake |
$586,377 |
50 | 1 year |
Public Health-Seattle & King County |
$545,049 |
Services | 1 year |
YWCA Transition into Permanent Project |
$167,867 |
Services | 1 year |
YouthCare Home of Hope |
$181,306 |
10 | 1 year |
Community Psychiatric Clinic El Rey |
$75,171 |
16 | 1 year |
Archdiocesan Housing Authority Aloha Inn |
$201,576 |
66 | 1 year |
El Centro de la Raza Transitional Housing |
$17,603 |
2 | 1 year |
Youth and Outreach Services Dove House |
$121,545 |
5 | 1 year |
YWCA Three Agency Demonstration Project |
$85,614 |
10 | 1 year |
YouthCare Sand Point Youth Home |
$548,598 |
19 | 1 year |
YWCA Auburn Transitional |
$42,540 |
8 | 1 year |
Consejo Mi Casa |
$74,613 |
4 | 1 year |
Low Income Housing Institute One Heart Project |
$398,905 |
Services | 1 year |
Childcare Resources Regional Homeless Child Care |
$529,095 |
Services | 1 year |
Low Income Housing Institute Martin Court |
$105,000 |
41 | 1 year |
Public Health-Seattle & King County Medical Respite |
$696,732 |
Services | 1 year |
Multi Service Center Homeless Family Transitional Housing |
$26,724 |
3 | 1 year |
Low Income Housing Institute Columbia Court |
$36,141 |
13 | 1 year |
Downtown Emergency Service Center Scattered Site Leasing |
$517,251 |
60 | 1 year |
Downtown Emergency Service Center-Evans House |
$183,540 |
26 | 1 year |
City of Seattle DFYS Pro Youth |
$838,688 |
Services | 1 year |
Church Council of Greater Seattle - HomeStep Scattered Sites |
$116,397 |
22 | 1 year |
King County Dutch Shisler Sobering Support Center |
$624,566 |
Services | 1 year |
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle Harder House |
$84,906 |
7 | 1 year |
Auburn Youth Services Severson House |
$123,286 |
7 | 1 year |
United Indians of All Tribes- Indian Youth Home |
$343,565 |
25 | 1 year |
Goodwill Baptist Aridell Mitchell Home |
$28,596 |
6 | 1 year |
Goodwill Baptist Development Associations Teen Parent Home |
$56,642 |
4 | 1 year |
King County DCHS Safe Harbors I |
$303,975 |
HMIS | 1 year |
King County DCHS Safe Harbors II |
$99,739 |
HMIS | 1 year |
King County Shelter Plus Care (multiple grants) |
$5,426,532 |
494 | 1 year |
** Units can be houses, apartments, rooms or beds
HMIS refers to Homeless Management Information System
