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Redmond details 'Get People Housed' strategy; staff flags regional funding limits and housing‑unit gaps
Summary
Human services staff briefed the committee on the city's 'Get People Housed' strategy, reviewing regional Continuum of Care funding, recent point‑in‑time counts (about 17,000 in King County), local programs (housing connector, direct referral partnerships, hotel vouchers) and state planning targets requiring Redmond to plan for roughly 3,700 permanent supportive units and 3,800 emergency housing units.
Redmond human services staff presented the third of four briefings on the city’s Get People Housed strategy at the March 17 committee meeting, outlining regional funding constraints, local programs and the scale of the housing gap.
“Redmond contributes to the solution, but no single city can solve homelessness alone,” Brooke Buckingham said, summarizing a regional context shaped by federal and state policy and by King County’s Continuum of Care. Buckingham cited the most recent point‑in‑time count figures presented to the…
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