(2008; 48 pages)

The Housing Consortium of Everett and Snohomish County (HCESC) contracted with Building Changes to develop a plan for dramatically increasing the number of households assisted through affordable housing and homeless prevention services in Snohomish County. This report describes the strategies necessary to more than double the households receiving housing assistance in the county, from 14,000 to over 32,000 over the next ten years. Strategies focus on three broad approaches: providing incentives to developers to include affordable units in their new developments; building the capacity of affordable housing partners to increase their production and sustain programs; and developing new public and private resources to fund housing creation and preservation.