Community, Health and Human Services (CHHS) & Office of Neighborhood Services (ONS)

Highlights

Community, Health and Human Services (CHHS)

• About 130 volunteers helped survey 1,757 homeless individuals for the Point-in-Time Count
• The City was awarded a $680,460 state grant to help revitalize the Liberty Park Terrace affordable housing campus in the Perry District
• Sinto Commons, partially funded through the City's Home Investment Partnership Program (HOME), opened as a 47-unit apartment village
• A total of $10 million in funding for 11 affordable housing projects that are being leveraged by three different sources was approved.
• Emergency Rent Assistance - The City, in collaboration with subcontractors FORWARD (formerly LiveStories) Family Promise and the Carl Maxey Center that process applications, distributed about $35 million to 7,000 households over the past 18 months in federal and state funds.
• With 8 new staff, CHHS distributed $40 million in funding from federal, state and local sources to subrecipients in the regional fight to reduce homelessness and tackle the housing crisis.
• Minor home repair grants to address hazards. 130 total home repairs with $500,000 grants
• Single-Family Rehabilitation Program Provides lowinterest home loans for major home repairs 13 total home repairs with $1.4 million
• After considering more than 100 properties, the City engaged in a public-private partnership to open the Trent Resource and Assistance Center to offer support services to help individuals to find their pathway out of homelessness.
• HUD announced $4.3 million in Continuum of Care Competition Awards for Spokane homeless housing and service programs.
• The City and its partners launched sheltermespokane.org, a public website that allows the community to view homeless shelter occupancy rates submitted directly by providers on a daily basis.
• CHHS provided 30 trainings for partners to input homelessness data into the Community Management Information System (CMIS) that has increased to 450 users.
• Public libraries provided cooling centers for all individuals to during four heat wave activation periods encompassing 20 days.

Office of Neighborhood Services (ONS)

• $24,500 Total spent on community engagement
• 8 Community events funded in neighborhoods
• 9 Zoom licenses funded for neighborhood councils to continue hybrid meetings
• 22 Neighborhoods that utilized grant funding
• 38 Clean-up events
• 870 Tons of waste removed
• 4,435 Digital disposal passes distributed to residents
• 1,200 Physical disposal passes distributed via COPS Shops
• 1,000 "Neighbors Drive 25" yard sign given away by mid-April and 1,000 more reordered in July
• Mobile speed feedback trailers were deployed to 54 locations throughout 21 neighborhoods.
• Nine leaders from Neighborhood Councils participated in the inaugural Spokane Neighborhood Leadership Academy, a partnership between ONS, the City Council and Gonzaga University.
• ONS assists Spokane’s 29 neighborhoods with programs that engage people in local government, build stronger communities and improve quality of life.