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King County, Seattle receive federal homeless assistance award of $19.7 million

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Dow Constantine


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

Vietnam Veterans Leadership Project Burien House

$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

Vietnam Veterans Leadership Project Bennett House

$23,579

6

1 year

Downtown Emergency Service Center 1811 Eastlake

$586,377

50

1 year

Public Health-Seattle & King County
Medical Case Management / Pathways

$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



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