Washington Affordable Housing Information
- In Washington, Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit is $757
- An extremely low income household (earning 30% of the AMI of $62,965) can afford monthly rent of no more than $472
- A 3-person household receiving the maximum TANF grant can afford monthly rent of no more than $164
- A minimum wage earner, earning $15,870 annually, can afford monthly rent of no more than $397
- Fair market rent for a one-bedroom unit is $617
- A household on SSI can afford monthly rent of no more than $174
- A unit is considered affordable if it costs no more than 30% of the renter's income
- 38% of renters in Washington are unable to afford Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit
- In Washington, a worker earning the State Minimum Wage ($7.63 per hour) has to work 76 hours per week in order to afford a two-bedroom unit at the area's Fair Market rent
- The Housing Wage in Washington is $14.55. This is the amount a worker would have to earn per hour in order to be able to work 40 hours per week and afford a two-bedroom unit at the area's Fair Market rent. This is 191% of the present State Minimum wage ($7.63 per hour)
Washington
Homelessness Info
The following information is for the period July 1, 2002-June 30, 2003
and represents services provided by $2.5 million in Emergency Shelter
Assistance Program (ESAP) funds:
- 35,943 households were sheltered in the 146 shelter programs located in 39 Washington counties
- 1,228,623 bednights were provided to 51,380 homeless people
- 7,939 households were families with children
- 14,337 of the 51,380 homeless people were under the age of 18; 6,139 were age 5 or younger
- Homeless people were turned away from shelter 78,027 times
- There were 42,570 incidents of homeless families with children being turned away from shelter
- 21,698 individuals in 9,861 households were assisted with homelessness prevention
Washington
Housing Resources
Washington
State Coalition for the Homeless: 360-357-6990
Real Change:
Puget Sound's Homeless Newspaper: 206-441-3247
Intercommunity
Mercy Housing: 206-838-5700
Transitions (of Spokane): 509-328-6702
Washington Low Income
Housing Alliance: 206-442-9455
Washington
Affordable Housing
Archdiocese of Seattle: Catholic
Community Services' Archdiocesan Housing Authority: 206-328-5696
State
of Washington Dept of Community Trade & Economic Development
Diocese of
Spokane: 509-358-7300
Diocese of Yakima:
509-965-7119
National Low Income
Housing Coalition
Seattle, WA 98115