Fact Sheets and Publications
Out of Reach 2013 is a report jointly released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the Housing Alliance, providing housing affordability data for every state, metropolitan area, and county, including the Housing Wage.
Housing Spotlight is a series of occasional research briefs from the National Low Income Housing Coalition that highlights a variety of housing issues. In 2011, in Washington State, for every 100 extremely low income households, there were 27 affordable and available units. For every 100 very low-income households, there were 55 affordable and available units.
Want to learn more about the need for affordable housing across Washington State? Download Bringing Washington Home: 2011 Affordable Housing Report.
The Washington Low Income Housing Alliance advocates for policies and funding that make it possible for everyone in Washington to have the opportunity to live in a safe, healthy, affordable home. Lead Items are legislation and policy that the Housing Alliance directly advocates for.
Our 2013 State Legislative Agenda also contains Support Items, which are legislation and policy that our members lead on and that we also support.
The Housing Trust Fund is Washington's best tool for ensuring access to safe, healthy and affordable housing. Since 1989, the Housing Trust Fund has successfully built, rehabilitated and preserved more than 36,000 healthy and affordable homes across the state.
The Housing and Essential Needs (HEN) program helps ensure that temporary disabilities don't force people onto the streets, by providing emergency rent & utility assistance and by providing access to some of life's most basic household and sanitary needs.
A tenant screening report is like a credit report for renters, and tenant screening is a fast growing, unregulated industry that greatly impacts access to housing.
We must ensure any new Value Capture Finance tool is equitable, in that it supports ending homelessness and preventing gentrification and sprawl.
Want to learn more about the need for affordable housing across Washington state? Download Bringing Washington Home: 2011 Affordable Housing Report.
