Help grow social housing!

A generous group of donors is offering a $5000 matching pool during GiveBig so that the first $5000 in donations are doubled!

Washington State is facing a housing crisis. We are over-reliant on the private market for our housing supply, which prioritizes profit over people. Our low-income, affordable housing is primarily funded through the Federal Government, and as the Trump Administration is proposing drastic cuts to affordable housing, now is the time to invest in local tools to provide housing that is affordable to all. 

House Our Neighbors Education Fund (HONEF) envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities, through the creation of social housing.

Social housing is an internationally proven model that provides permanently affordable, publicly owned, mixed-income housing. Because it is mixed-income, the rents of higher-income residents cross-subsidize those of lower income residents, and allows for social housing to operate without the ongoing operations and maintenance subsidies that traditional low-income housing relies on. It treats housing as a public good, not a commodity to make a profit off of. 

HONEF's coalition won two Seattle voter initiatives, Initiative 135 in 2023 and Prop 1A in 2025, creating and funding the Seattle Social Housing developer. After these victories, there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure social housing is successful. The organization's current priorities include:

1. Deepen awareness and support of social housing in Seattle, to ensure implementation is successful and social housing is created as soon as possible.
2. Expand our social housing education beyond Seattle, and help strengthen the movement in other Western Washington communities. 
3. Conduct policy research and development that will help social housing to flourish. 

Check out more about HONEF at http://www.houseourneighbors.org