Clallam County task force advances draft five‑year homeless housing plan to public hearing

The Clallam County Homelessness Task Force on May 6 reviewed a draft 2025–2030 homeless housing plan and voted to ask staff to incorporate meeting feedback and move the document to public review and a commissioners’ public hearing.

The plan, prepared using guidance from the Washington State Department of Commerce, lays out five‑year needs and strategies including emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing and new deeply‑affordable units. Consultant Paul Knox told the task force the plan’s objectives are “ambitious” and urged members to set targets “big enough to meet the problem at hand.”

Why it matters: the draft projects a significant shortfall of housing and shelter for the county’s lowest‑income residents over the next five years. The task force’s decision starts the formal public‑review process that will allow commissioners and the public to weigh in before the plan is finalized and submitted to the state.

The draft uses Commerce’s data to estimate what Clallam County will need by 2030 in addition to existing capacity: roughly 10 new emergency/shelter beds, about 88 permanent supportive housing beds and about 417 new units affordable to households under 30% of area median…