Newsletter Fall 2020

We’ve partnered with the King County Eviction Prevention and Rent Assistance program to assist even more families in 2020 Stable Home Program For families months behind on rent due to the pandemic, paying off that debt can lift a huge burden and relieve untold stress. Attain Housing is playing a key role in making that happen through its own Stable Home rental...

Meg Wallis began her intern work with Attain Housing in mid-2019 and quickly became an invaluable member of the Stable Home program team. Meg is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Social Work from Boise State University and has used her time to gain direct experience helping client families. “The clients who utilize Attains services are from all different backgrounds, though...

Longtime Eastside residents Don and Susan Adams wanted to make a bigger impact to help those in need in his local community, but didn’t know how to go about it in the most effective way. A friend referred Don to Attain Housing and he helped organize a group from his LDS church to do a service project at one of...

All of you, our donors and supporters, showed up for Attain Housing in a huge way for our Week of Giving in September. Even without an in-person luncheon, your support made our annual Fall Fundraiser a rousing success. Pre-COVID, we had set a fundraising goal for our 2020 Fundraiser of $180,000 and we got SO CLOSE! We were truly blown...

Grateful. As 2020 winds down and we enter the Holiday season, the word that keeps coming to mind is grateful. Yes, Thanksgiving usually brings that to mind so I’m not being original, and yet it is more than that. While we could focus on what a difficult year it has been and how we would normally be gathering with friends...

How to get into the holiday spirit with Attain Housing We all deserve some holiday cheer at the end of a year like no other, and that especially applies to the families in our transitional housing program. They have been so resilient in the face of the pandemic and have worked so hard to overcome the economic challenges of 2020. We...