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Just off the press: A new
brochure
about Seattle Housing Authority
In response to requests from social
service agencies and others, SHA has
published a brochure that provides a quick look at the agency’s
programs and a map of our properties. It
also provides an abbreviated history of the agency, describes
services for residents, and provides contact information for housing programs, administrators, our central
office and our contracting officers, and the 24-hour Jobs Hotline.
If you'd like copies for your agency,
please request them here or
call Scott Freutel,
PorchLight Communications Specialist, at 206-239-1668. They’re
available free of charge in bundles of 25 to social service agencies
and government offices. Single copies are available without charge
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Jefferson Terrace under
consideration as a facility
to house people emerging
from homelessness |
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Jefferson
Terrace is currently being considered by Seattle Housing as a
possible facility for people emerging from homelessness who are in
need of a supportive housing environment. In early
August, SHA Executive Director Tom Tierney addressed a meeting of
Jefferson Terrace residents and explained what’s being considered
and why.
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Seattle
Housing Authority to provide rental assistance to 52 homeless
veterans thanks to the VASH program
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The goal of the Veterans Affairs
Supportive Housing (VASH) program is to provide Housing Choice
(Section 8) rental assistance vouchers in tandem with case
management and clinical services to homeless veterans, enabling them
to lead healthy, productive lives in the community and avoid
remaining homeless. HUD and the VA have provided SHA funds to begin
providing these vouchers.
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New hearing procedures in
place for
Housing Choice Voucher program |
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A settlement agreement Seattle Housing
Authority recently entered into has led to changes in how the agency
conducts hearings for Housing Choice Voucher program (Section 8)
participants who are about to be terminated from the program. The
agreement settled a lawsuit that had been brought against SHA by the
Northwest Justice Project on behalf of a Section 8 participant.
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Save My Spot will soon be
applied to
SSHP waiting lists |
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Since its roll-out in June 2007, the waiting list check-in
program known as "Save My Spot" has allowed SHA’s Low Income Public
Housing administrators to greatly streamline the handling of waiting
lists while providing people waiting to be housed assurance that
they’re still in the queue. Now people on Seattle Senior Housing
Program waiting lists are about to be introduced to Save My Spot.
Read more»
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