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The 7 Hills of Kirkland bike event, Attain Housing's classic spring fundraiser, is going online! Join the challenge from your home and then get pedaling for real for an entire month of cycling challenges, weekly mileage and climbing contests, and community! Perhaps you've never ridden 7 Hills before because you're more of a casual/leisure rider and those hills just don't appeal....

"What's your plan moving forward?" That's a standard question we ask during the intake process for people requesting Stable Home funds to avoid eviction. It's a question that's hard enough for many folks to answer during normal circumstances, but it feels nearly impossible to answer during the COVID-19 crisis. We continue to serve clients through our Stable Home eviction prevention program while...

[caption id="attachment_18330" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo credit: SPSCC.edu[/caption] As the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis continues to be felt by the low-income families living in our transitional housing program, acquiring food and supplies has become an increasingly more worrisome issue. "Those families with transportation can go pick up food from food banks," Greg, our Program Services Manager said. "But, those who don't...

[caption id="attachment_18143" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Some behind the scenes action from our client family video, created for our luncheon. Click the image to watch the video![/caption] Our Stable Home program is changing in 2020, but it won’t be slowing down Stable Home, our rental assistance program, grew tremendously in 2019 in terms of households served. We are extremely proud that we never had...

[caption id="attachment_18023" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Photo by Ashish Keshwani[/caption] When Johnny, Sarah, and their three kids lost their housing in Bellevue, they ended up living in and out of motels in South King County. For the several months they were displaced, Johnny still drove his kids to their schools back in the Bellevue school district so they wouldn’t fall behind. Johnny had...

[caption id="attachment_18147" align="alignright" width="225"] Susan Jones (left) drops off this year's collected donations.[/caption] When the holiday season approaches, Windermere Real Estate agents Kitty Ballard and Susan Jones team up to gather donations for Attain Housing families. They’ve been doing so for over 20 years now. It was an effort born out of friendship and a shared desire to help out families...

[caption id="attachment_18144" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Even infants love to pitch in at Community Supper![/caption] As 2019 comes to a close, our Community Supper program is still going strong and regularly serving meals for 40 to 50 people every Tuesday at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church in Kirkland. 2020 dates are still available for hosting meals and if you’d like to lead a group...

[caption id="attachment_18136" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Photo by Ashish Keshwani[/caption] Our 2019 annual fundraising luncheon raised over $174,000 to help families leave homelessness behind Attain Housing’s efforts to heal the trauma of intergenerational poverty and stabilize children and their families with its supportive programs got a boost from a distinguished physician at the nonprofit’s annual fundraising luncheon. Dr. Ben Danielson, Senior Medical Director of the...