Housing, Homelessness and Community Development Division

Department of Community and Human Services

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Building a vibrant community where everyone has a stable home.

The Housing, Homelessness and Community Development Division provides both services and programs to improve the community in King County.

Though HHCDD provides some direct-service that our King County residents can access directly through individual applications, this is only a small portion of our division. Housing and Homelessness primarily serves the public through our programs that award funds to community organizations and cities through contracts--making them the primary vehicle for our services.

Help shape equitable development in King County! Join the community planning workgroup!

Apply by May 9!

King County is establishing a community planning workgroup to support development of a new King County Equitable Development Initiative (KC EDI). Applications to be on the workgroup are due 1 p.m. May 9.

Our Most Searched Services

• Homeless Housing
• Environmental Review Notices, Funding and RFPs
• Housing Finance
• Housing Repair

The Homeless Housing Program (HHP) facilitates human services to support housing stability and individual safety. HHP administers and oversees funding for housing stability and services programs in four broad categories:

• Emergency and Short-term Housing: Emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing
• Homeless Prevention: Preventing households from losing their housing as a strategy to address homelessness
• Permanent Housing: Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) and Permanent Housing with Supportive Services
• Special Projects: The Human Services Bus Ticket Program provides subsidized bus tickets to eligible human service agencies serving persons who are homeless and/or low income.

Learn more about Environmental Review Notices, Funding and Requests for Proposals

• Public Environmental Review Notices
• NOFAs
• Awards
• Prior RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs
• ZoomGrants Help

The King County Housing Finance Program (HFP) administers funds for the development and preservation of affordable housing throughout King County.

Partnerships are encouraged among local governments, public housing authorities, nonprofit housing developers, for-profit developers, and service providers in order to produce the greatest number of units for the most reasonable public investment, and to provide appropriate supportive services to residents with special needs.

We provide funding for housing repair services to low-income homeowners and special needs renters in most parts of King County, located in Washington State.

Our funding provides for repairs such as replacing your roof, installing a new septic system, repairs addressing emergency conditions, health and safety repairs or major building preservation issues within the single family owner occupied home.

For renters with a disability, we provide funding to make your unit more accessible.