Housing Assistance Points
Housing Assistance Points (HAP)
A key feature of our Community Outreach Program are our Housing Assistance Points (HAPs). These are a schedule of geographic locations where we assure our unhoused neighbors we will be at on a regular and consistent basis.
Key Components
Consistency: HAPs place the same person at the same time and at the same place every single week. This regularity and consistency of schedule helps make communication easier in a community which often does not have phones or email.
Stable Relationships: The success of our Enhanced Clients Services program is based in the sustained and trusting relationships we are able to build with our unhoused neighbors. Having the same, regular staff member who is committed to a specific location and a specific schedule makes it easiest to build rapport and trust with those most in need of our services.
Housing Assistance Points (HAP) Sites:
- Aurora Commons
- Lake City Library
- North Seattle College
- Salvation Army, Greenwood Branch
- Shoreline Resource Center
- University District Food Bank
How to Connect
By referral only, no self-referrals.
HAP Details
We are embedded in, or work in close partnership with, over 40 service providers in King County, offering our expertise in navigating the sometimes complex King County’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS system, allowing other agencies to focus on what they do best.
- Access to Permanent Supportive Housing / Coordinated Entry
- Personal stabilization resources (ID, DSHS, criminal justice, etc.)
- Social Security & disability entitlement programs
- Medicare/Medicaid access
- Healthcare access (physical & behavioral)
- Life skills resources
- Workforce/education assistance
- Employment assistance