Affordable Housing Program (AHP)

Neighborhood Stablization Program (NSP) Request for Proposal

The City of Spokane and Spokane County are now accepting applications for the Neighborhood Stablization Program.  Deadline for RFP, November 16, 2009.  If you have any questions please contact Richard Culton at (509) 477-4487.

HOME

HOME is the centerpiece program of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA), officially entitled the HOME Investment Partnerships Act.  The Home Program is intended to achieve three specific goals:

1. To expand the supply of decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing with the primary focus on housing for low, very low, and extremely low-income families.
2. To strengthen the ability of local governments to design and implement strategies for achieving adequate supplies of decent, affordable housing.
3. To encourage public, private, and non-profit partnerships to address affordable housing needs.

Each year the Spokane County Community Services, Housing, and Community Development Department receives a formula allocation of HOME funds from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) . For the 2009 Program Year (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010), Spokane County anticipates receiving approximately $1616,902. These funds will be allocated through a competitive application process by Spokane County.  Please contact Richard Culton at (509) 477-4487 for more information on the Affordable Housing Program. 

Download the HOME Income Limits and HOME Program Rents. These updated amounts are effective as of March 2009.

Are You Interested in Home Ownership?

Spokane County Community Services, Housing, and Community Development Department has entered into an agreement with Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs to administer the Downpayment Assistance Program.

The Downpayment Assistance Program will provide eligible first time homebuyers with $24,000 as a deferred loan to help with down payment and closing costs.

Downpayment Assistance Program Guidelines

Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice and Fair Housing Plan

Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice and Fair Housing Plan

As part of the jurisdiction's obligation to affirmatively further fair housing, the jurisdiction must undertake the completion of an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice as well as a Fair Housing Plan. This document will summarized both the analysis completed by the County as well as the strategies developed to address the barriers to housing choice.

HUD has included a wide array of potential issues under the umbrella of "impediments to fair housing choice."  An impediment restricts housing choice for persons who are part of a federally protected classification.

HUD defines an impediment to fair housing choice as any action, omission or decision in a jurisdiction:

• Taken because of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin that restricts housing choice or the availability of housing choice;
• That constitutes a violation, or potential violation, of the Fair Housing Act;
• That is counterproductive to fair housing choice, such as community resistance when minorities, persons with disabilities and /or low-income persons first move into white and/or moderate income areas, or resistance to the siting of housing facilities for persons with disabilities; or
• That has the effect of restricting housing opportunities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin.

A few Projects funded by Spokane County's Affordable Housing Program