Shelter and Housing
McKinney-Vento Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Program
Each year more than $19 million of McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act funds flow from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into King County to provide housing, supportive services and rental assistance to homeless people.
McKinney funding is critical to our region’s implementation of the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness in King County. These funds help homeless persons meet three goals:
- achieve residential stability;
- increase their skill levels and/or incomes; and
- strengthen their ability to influence decisions that affect their lives.
Since 1995, the City of Seattle and King County have applied for these funds on behalf of a regional consortium of service providers, and administered distribution of the money to about 70 programs operating throughout the county. Each program has a focus on a specific audience -- families, single adults, single women and single men, victims of domestic violence, veterans or persons with severe mental illness.
The Supportive Housing Program component of McKinney specifically helps people make the transition from homelessness to independent living. Other McKinney programs are the Emergency Shelter Grants Program for emergency shelter; Shelter Plus Care for permanent supportive housing and Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation for Single Room Occupancy Dwellings for Homeless Individuals, another permanent housing option.
To receive McKinney funding, HUD requires applicants to work through a local “Continuum of Care.” For Seattle and King County, the Continuum of Care encompasses programs and activities within the borders of King County including Seattle. Each continuum sets funding priorities and need for its community. The Seattle-King County Continuum of Care priorities are set by the Committee to End Homelessness in King County.
In 2009, the King County Continuum of Care was awarded approximately $20 million of McKinney funding. Of that amount, $13.2 million went to programs in Seattle; the remainder to agencies in King County. On July 7, 2010, HUD announced the award of $920,226 in McKinney Homeless Assistance Program funding to the City of Seattle on behalf of two permanent supportive housing projects. The following grants will provide two years of operating support for 103 new units of permanent supportive housing:
- Archdiocesan Housing Authority - Bakhita Gardens at Noel House: $279,300. Funds will support 20 semi-private cubicles in this 90-unit project. These units will operate with a very low barrier to entry and with intensive wraparound services focused on housing retention for chronically homeless women.
- Downtown Emergency Service Center - Canady House: $640,926. Funds will support 83 units for homeless single men and women who are chronically homeless and high utilizers of public-funded crisis services.
2010 Funded Agencies and Programs
- Archdiocesan Housing Authority - Aloha Inn
- Archdiocesan Housing Authority - Dorothy Day House
- Archdiocesan Housing Authority - Rose of Lima
- Archdiocesan Housing Authority - St. Martin's on Westlake
- Archdiocesan Housing Authority - Westlake II Housing
- Auburn Youth Services - Severson House
- Building Changes - Lyon Building
- Child Care Resources - Regional Homeless Child Care
- Church Council of Greater Seattle - Homestead Scattered Site
- Church Council of Greater Seattle - The Homelessness Project
- Church Council of Greater Seattle - Transitions Program
- City of Seattle - PRO Youth
- Community Psychiatric Clinic - Cedar House
- Community Psychiatric Clinic - El Rey
- Community Psychiatric Clinic - Harbor House Safe Haven
- Compass Center - Cascade Women’s Program
- Compass Center - Mary Witt/Rosa Parks
- Compass Center - Renton Veterans Program
- Consejo Mi Casa
- Downtown Emergency Service Center - 1811 Eastlake
- Downtown Emergency Service Center - Evans House
- Downtown Emergency Service Center - Kerner-Scott Safe Haven
- Downtown Emergency Service Center - Rainier Supportive Housing Program
- Downtown Emergency Service Center - Scattered Site Leasing
- Eastside Domestic Violence Program - My Friends Place
- El Centro de la Raza Transitional Housing
- Friends of Youth - Arbor House
- Goodwill Baptist Development Association - Aridell Mitchell Home
- Goodwill Baptist Development Association - Teen Parent Home
- Hopelink Family Transitional Housing
- Kent Youth and Family Services - Watson Manor
- King County Department of Community and Human Services - Safe Harbors
- King County Department of Community and Human Services - Sobering Support Center
- King County Shelter Plus Care
- Low Income Housing Institute - Columbia Court
- Low Income Housing Institute - Martin Court
- Low Income Housing Institute - One Heart Project
- Multi Service Center - Homeless Family Transitional Housing
- New Beginnings Transitional Housing
- Plymouth Housing Group - Coming Home
- Youth Coordination Project
- Public Health-Seattle & King County Medical Case Management/Pathways
- Public Health-Seattle & King County Medical Respite
- Salvation Army - Hickman House
- Salvation Army - William Booth House
- Seattle Housing Authority - Beacon House
- Solid Ground - Broadview
- Solid Ground - Journey Home
- Solid Ground - Sand Point Family Housing
- United Indians of All Tribes - Indian Youth Home
- Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle - Harder House
- Vietnam Veterans Leadership Project - Bennett House
- Vietnam Veterans Leadership Project - Burien House
- Workforce Development Council Homeless Intervention Project
- Youth and Outreach Services - Dove House
- YouthCare - Home of Hope
- YouthCare - Ravenna House
- YouthCare - Sand Point Youth Home
- YouthCare - Straley House
- YWCA - Anita Vista
- YWCA - Auburn Transitional
- YWCA - Family Village
- YWCA - Opportunity Place
- YWCA - Three Agency Demonstration Project
- YWCA - Transition into Permanent Project
- YWCA - Windermere House
If you are a homeless person needing assistance, please contact the
211 Information Line by dialing 211 or 1-800-621-4636.
If you are an agency interested in seeking McKinney funding for transitional or permanent supportive housing (emergency shelters are not eligible for this fund source), please call Eileen Denham at 206-684-0915.
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