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King County, Seattle receive nearly $1 million in new federal homeless assistance grants; 2010-2011 award total for region exceeds $21 million

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Dow Constantine


King County, Seattle receive nearly $1 million in new federal homeless assistance grants; 2010-2011 award total for region exceeds $21 million

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The City of Seattle and King County have been awarded nearly $1 million to support the operating costs for two new homeless housing projects opening in 2010, bringing the total for 2010-2011 federal homeless assistance awards to over $21 million for the region. King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the award Thursday, following the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announcement of nationwide awards.

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A joint release of King County and the City of Seattle

The City of Seattle and King County have been awarded nearly $1 million to support the operating costs for two new homeless housing projects opening in 2010, bringing the total for 2010-2011 federal homeless assistance awards to over $21 million for the region.  King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced the award Thursday, following the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announcement of nationwide awards.

“The new McKinney funds will help us to reach out to some of our most vulnerable residents, offering safe and stable housing to help break the cycle of homelessness,” said Executive Constantine, co-chair of the Committee to End Homelessness Governing Board.  “We are grateful to our federal partners for thier continuing support for the range of programs and services in our region that are so important to our efforts to end homelessness in King County.”

New funding in the amount of $920,000 will sustain two new supportive housing projects for chronically homeless persons with disabilities.  The funds will support 20 units for homeless women in the Archdiocesan Housing Authority's Bakhita Gardens opening this fall and Downtown Emergency Service Center's Canaday House, which will provide 83 new units of housing for single adults when it opens in August 2010.  This new money is in addition to the $20.5 million in existing grants through the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act that were renewed earlier by HUD for 2010-2011. 

“These grants are critical as we work to end homelessness by helping people find safe and stable housing to rebuild their lives,” said Mayor McGinn, 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 recovery.”

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 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.

“Communities have to show that they are performing well in a number of areas and that they have compelling projects,” said Bill Block, Project Director of the Committee to End Homelessness.  “I am pleased that we have met that test and that we were rewarded with a $1 million addition to our McKinney funding, which we expect to have renewed in each funding cycle for many years into the future, creating an important new ongoing resource.”

The Bakhita Gardens project ($279,300) in Belltown will use grant funds to support 20 semiprivate units as permanent supportive housing in a new six-story structure.  The units will operate with a very low barrier to entry and include intensive wraparound services focused on achieving housing retention for the most vulnerable and chronically homeless women.

Canaday House ($640,926) will use McKinney funding to provide 83 units of permanent supportive housing designed to serve chronically homeless, single men and women who are high users of publicly funded crisis services and who have one or more significant disabilities such as mental illness or chemical dependency.

The new money is in addition to $20.5 million in existing McKinney grants that the Seattle/King County Continuum of Care receives from HUD, renewed late last year for 2010.  Renewed were 62 existing housing and supportive service programs that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, a total of 818 units of transitional housing, 847 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.  Also renewed was funding for the Safe Harbors Homeless Management Information System, which collects data on services provided to homeless people in programs throughout King County.  The attached chart provides detail on the Homeless Assistance Awards.

The Continuum of Care is already working on the 2010 application for next year.

For more information on the programs and projects funded by the McKinney grant funds, please contact Eileen Denham, City of Seattle McKinney Programs Coordinator, 206-684-0915 or Kate Speltz, King County Housing and Community Development Program, 206-263-9084.


Seattle/King County Continuum of Care
Homeless Assistance Awards for 2010-2011
This information reflects the award for the 2009 Seattle-King County Consolidated application for McKinney funding.  Newly funded projects were awarded by HUD on July 7, 2010.


Project Sponsor / Project Name

Award

# Units**

Funding
Term

Archdiocesan Housing Authority 
Bakhita Gardens (Noel at Bakhita)                                     (NEW)

$279,300

20

2 years

Downtown Emergency Service Center
Cascade (Canaday House)                                                (NEW)

$640,926

83

2 years

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

$57,319

14

1 year

Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation - Valley Landing

$140,085

22

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  New Ground Bothell (Arbor House)

$123,062

14

1 year

Church Council of Greater Seattle Transitions Program

$81,370

12

1 year

Downtown Emergency Service Center Rainier Housing

$462,500

50

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 / Urban Rest Stop

$398,285

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
(Homeless Management Information System)

$303,975

HMIS

1 year

King County DCHS Safe Harbors II

$99,739

HMIS

1 year

King County Shelter Plus Care (multiple grants)

$5,807,148

494

1 year

TOTAL 

$21,446,075

** Units can be houses, apartments, rooms or beds



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