Aurora Oaks Enhanced Shelter is the highest-performing enhanced shelter in King County, with a 99% shelter bed utilization rate. Our dignity-first model offers private rooms and an extended-stay period, giving clients the opportunity to stabilize over a period of months, not days, while our Enhanced Client Services team assists them with their journey to Permanent Supportive Housing. The results are a 122% annual housing placement rate (2024).
At Aurora Oaks, clients learn to reconnect to the idea of safety: of having their own room, that their possessions will still exist when they return, and that they can think beyond a minute-by-minute or day-to-day existence. This time and space allows our Client Services team to build relationships with the clients sufficient to complete a 35-50 page application packet to access Permanent Supportive Housing and allows us to help our clients access other basic, necessary documentation and address healthcare issues, all things that are usually a vital part of helping individuals stabilize after they have been unhoused for an extended period of time.
Thanks to Lake City’s Partners’ commitment to reducing the disproportionate impacts of racism, in 2024 intake data for Aurora Oaks closely matched with the demographics for King County’s most recent Point in Time demographics. Please contact office@lakecitypartners.org for more information.
Funding
Aurora Oaks is funded through the King County Regional Homelessness Authority with additional support from King County and the Cities of Shoreline, Kenmore, Bothell, Seattle (and others), as well many local community, faith-based, and philanthropic organizations.
Key Facts 2024
- Moved more than 100 people into housing (80% Permanent Supportive Housing)
- 122% annual housing placement rate (industry average 38%)
- 99% occupancy rate
- 100% of Aurora Oaks residents had an Individual Housing Plan with our Client Services team
- More than 90% of residents enrolled in Medicaid
- 100% of all participants fully enrolled in HMIS
- Engaged with 30+ referral partners and processed 500+ referrals for placement
- Ensured availability and access to all participants for behavioral health supports, including: Medical Assisted Treatment; Substance Use Disorder Assessments; Mental Health
Address
16357 Aurora Ave N
Shoreline, WA
By appointment only
Placement in Aurora Oaks is by referral only.
Site Details
- 60 beds
- Single room occupancy (site of repurposed nursing home “The Oaks”)
- Serving unhoused single adults and couples
- Enhanced shelter (3 to 6 month average length of stay)
- Combined site operations and service delivery with our Enhanced Client Services
- Meals supported by Hunger Intervention Program and North Helpline
- On-site laundry services
- Staffed 24 hours per day
- Accepts referrals from more than 40 partner organizations
“The loss of human dignity – the othering that results of being unsheltered – requires a restoration of personal dignity as the underpinning of the long-term housing solution. That is why our facilities are set up the way they are.”