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Spokane County commissioners weigh shifts in homeless funding, emphasize prevention and accountability
Summary
County staff presented draft guidance for distributing reduced Consolidated Homeless Grant funds, recommending higher shares for homelessness prevention and transitional housing, stronger contract accountability, and outreach requirements linking rural residents to city services.
Spokane County commissioners on Feb. 24 reviewed draft guidance for how to allocate anticipated reductions in state Consolidated Homeless Grant (CHG) funding and signaled support for prioritizing homelessness prevention and measurable outcomes.
County staff presenter Chris Pranche told the Board that Commerce’s CHG award is expected to be “reduced at approximately 20%,” and proposed shifting funding percentages so prevention receives about 30% of local CHG dollars, transitional housing about 20%, rapid re-housing and long‑term housing smaller shares, and outreach roughly 5%.
That recommendation, Pranche said, aims to produce “projects with outcomes or accountability measures,” and he said the advisory committee would be asked to evaluate grant applications against those guardrails before the Board receives final funding recommendations. “We should contractually put in our expectations…
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