Newsletter Winter/Spring 2022

Our Stable Home eviction prevention program has rolled with the punches during the pandemic and has continued to evolve along with the rest of the post-eviction moratorium landscape. Stable Home advocate Jesse Perrell says providing information and clearing up confusion is a large part of the service provided to families who are at risk of losing their housing. “Landlords are starting...

We’ve had a few new folks join our team at Attain Housing in the last year and we’d like to tell you all about them. Our longtime bookkeeper Nita Lindsey retired in August 2021 and while we were sad to see her go, we were fortunate to find another fantastic bookkeeper in Chandana Gowda, who came on board in September 2021. Get...

Being a facilities manager for a small housing nonprofit like ours is no small task. We’ve been lucky to have some real hard workers with lots of vision and creativity fill that role for us in the past, and thankfully we’ve found another such person in Bill Smith, who joined our team in January 2022. Get to know Bill a bit,...

The Durham family made their first donation to Attain Housing in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued since then to give generously in support of our Stable Home program. We reached out to ask them what motivated them to give and to tell us a bit more about themselves. Janelle Durham gave us their...

Attain Housing will be taking a year off from the 7 Hills of Kirkland fundraiser in 2022. We’d like to give a big thanks to everyone who joined us virtually and tracked their miles in May 2020 and 2021! We are recruiting for the planning committee for a 2023 ride. If you’re interested, please email Carol@attainhousing.org or fill out the interest...

We are consistently blown away by the generosity of our donors when it comes to the holidays, but our Holiday Giving Drive finished off 2021 with a huge bang as donors nearly tripled our fundraising goal. Our Holiday Giving Drive raised over $145,000 to support our transitional housing program and our Stable Home rental assistance program. Also, thanks to our amazing...