Community Action Center awarded $800,000 grant for apartment complex

Community Action Center has been awarded $800,000 from the Washington State Housing Trust to build RiverView Apartments, a 56-unit complex that will provide affordable housing in Pullman. The RiverView project will be located just southeast of Pullman Regional Hospital and directly east of the Palouse Business Park off Fairmont Road. It will be within walking distance of retail services, employment opportunities and public transportation. The tentative completion is summer, 2019.

Priority for the apartments will include homeless families with children, people with disabilities, veterans and large families. Twenty-eight units will be rented to households with the lowest income, less than 30 percent of median, and 27 units will be rented to households with very low income, less than 50 percent of median. One unit will be rented to a resident manager.

“Our goal at CAC is to help every Whitman County resident improve their ability to be in stable housing, and to increase long-term self-sufficiency,” says Jeff Guyett, director of Community Action Center.

Last year CAC housed 206 families.

Washington State legislators this year allocated $67.8 million for competitive funding to create new affordable housing units.

“We considered a combination of factors, including a delayed capital budget, the current affordable housing and homelessness crisis around the state, and the high level of project readiness displayed in the 2017 application pool,” said Corina Grigoras, managing director of the housing finance unit at Washington Department of Commerce. “

They determined that the best use of funds would be to allocate the majority now, while reserving sufficient resources for a 2018 competitive application round later this year.

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