Compass Housing Alliance
@compasshousing.bsky.social
Emergency services & affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness or income instability in the Puget Sound region. #EveryoneDeservesAHome
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Check out our President, Christopher Ross, on this wonderful panel on City Inside/Out!
King County’s homelessness system is at a crossroads. With federal funding cuts & turnover at Regional Homelessness Authority, guests from LIHI, @compasshousing.bsky.social, & @marysplacewa.bsky.social discuss what new elected leaders could mean for the path forward w/ @callananseattle.bsky.social.
As funding shrinks & leadership changes, experts examine state of county’s homelessness crisis
YouTube video by Seattle Channel
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November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Check out our President, Christopher Ross, on this wonderful panel on City Inside/Out!
Yes, ballot drop boxes are the smart way to do this as post marking might not work in the same day.
It’s election day!!! Vote! 🗳️ And make sure to put those ballots in county elections drop boxes to ensure that they’re counted.
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Yes, ballot drop boxes are the smart way to do this as post marking might not work in the same day.
Federal funding for SNAP benefits is at risk. Please help us ensure our families get the food and support they need in November. Our families can’t afford this disruption to their lives.
www.compasshousingalliance.org/special-requ...
www.compasshousingalliance.org/special-requ...
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Federal funding for SNAP benefits is at risk. Please help us ensure our families get the food and support they need in November. Our families can’t afford this disruption to their lives.
www.compasshousingalliance.org/special-requ...
www.compasshousingalliance.org/special-requ...
We envision a world in which every person lives in a safe, caring community.
October 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We envision a world in which every person lives in a safe, caring community.
Want to be a part of something making a real difference? We are hiring!
www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
October 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Want to be a part of something making a real difference? We are hiring!
www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
Acclaimed author and friend of Compass, Brian Goldstone, talks with WJCT about his groundbreaking book, "There's No Place for Us," the story of working families experiencing homelessness and housing instability. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZddT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZddT...
First Coast Connect: There is No Place for Us: Working and Homelessness in America author Brian Gol
YouTube video by WJCT Public Media
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October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Acclaimed author and friend of Compass, Brian Goldstone, talks with WJCT about his groundbreaking book, "There's No Place for Us," the story of working families experiencing homelessness and housing instability. @brian-goldstone.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZddT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZddT...
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We're halfway through National Hispanic Heritage Month! Don't miss these events in your area:
🎻 Latino Chamber Music Festival - October 2 and 9 at First Congregational Church in Bellevue
📅 Día de Fiesta - October 4 in Downtown Oak Harbor
📅 Seattle Latino Film Festival - October 10-18 in Seattle
🎻 Latino Chamber Music Festival - October 2 and 9 at First Congregational Church in Bellevue
📅 Día de Fiesta - October 4 in Downtown Oak Harbor
📅 Seattle Latino Film Festival - October 10-18 in Seattle
KNKX honors Hispanic Heritage Month 2025
KNKX honors and celebrates the vibrant impact of Hispanic and Latino communities in the United States throughout the nation’s history.
www.knkx.org
October 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We're halfway through National Hispanic Heritage Month! Don't miss these events in your area:
🎻 Latino Chamber Music Festival - October 2 and 9 at First Congregational Church in Bellevue
📅 Día de Fiesta - October 4 in Downtown Oak Harbor
📅 Seattle Latino Film Festival - October 10-18 in Seattle
🎻 Latino Chamber Music Festival - October 2 and 9 at First Congregational Church in Bellevue
📅 Día de Fiesta - October 4 in Downtown Oak Harbor
📅 Seattle Latino Film Festival - October 10-18 in Seattle
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Want to make a real difference in your work, but need flexibility? We are hiring for relief staff! This part-time role is ideal for students, night owls, or anyone looking to explore a career in social services.
More information here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
More information here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
September 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Want to make a real difference in your work, but need flexibility? We are hiring for relief staff! This part-time role is ideal for students, night owls, or anyone looking to explore a career in social services.
More information here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
More information here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/employment/
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Grateful for this recognition from Atlanta Magazine:
"Written like gripping fiction, There Is No Place for Us is one of the best works of narrative nonfiction of the year, with prose so searing and incisive it will either inspire or enrage—or, most likely, both."
"Written like gripping fiction, There Is No Place for Us is one of the best works of narrative nonfiction of the year, with prose so searing and incisive it will either inspire or enrage—or, most likely, both."
August 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Grateful for this recognition from Atlanta Magazine:
"Written like gripping fiction, There Is No Place for Us is one of the best works of narrative nonfiction of the year, with prose so searing and incisive it will either inspire or enrage—or, most likely, both."
"Written like gripping fiction, There Is No Place for Us is one of the best works of narrative nonfiction of the year, with prose so searing and incisive it will either inspire or enrage—or, most likely, both."
We need more affordable housing.
Nearly half of Seattle renters spend more the 30% of their incomes on housing.
How much do you have to make to afford Seattle ‘out of whack’ rents?
Rising rents are particularly hard on Seattle renters, with the high cost pushing homeownership further out of reach. And nearly half of renters spend more than 30% of their incomes on housing.
www.seattletimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We need more affordable housing.
Throwback to two years ago when we had UW Professor Gregg Colburn talk about his book "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns."
(This is the RAW recording, but still worth a listen.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cg...
(This is the RAW recording, but still worth a listen.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cg...
Homelessness is a housing problem
YouTube video by Compass Housing Alliance
www.youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Throwback to two years ago when we had UW Professor Gregg Colburn talk about his book "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns."
(This is the RAW recording, but still worth a listen.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cg...
(This is the RAW recording, but still worth a listen.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cg...
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The Seattle City Council's Comp Plan committee is kicking off now, where we're going to be breaking down proposed amendments to the city's 20-year growth plan, including permanent residential zoning regulations and final neighborhood center boundaries.
But we don't yet have those amendments.
But we don't yet have those amendments.
August 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Seattle City Council's Comp Plan committee is kicking off now, where we're going to be breaking down proposed amendments to the city's 20-year growth plan, including permanent residential zoning regulations and final neighborhood center boundaries.
But we don't yet have those amendments.
But we don't yet have those amendments.
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I talked to KCRW about how, since the 1980s, political leaders have framed homelessness as a problem of individual pathology—a tactic to conceal its economic roots, justify removing unhoused people from public space, and divert scrutiny from a system that both creates and profits off this precarity.
What pushed these Americans into homelessness? Not addiction or mental illness
Journalist Brian Goldstone set out to uncover the true scope of homelessness, and followed five families for more than five years. His new book is “There Is No Place for Us.”
www.kcrw.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I talked to KCRW about how, since the 1980s, political leaders have framed homelessness as a problem of individual pathology—a tactic to conceal its economic roots, justify removing unhoused people from public space, and divert scrutiny from a system that both creates and profits off this precarity.
So glad to be here on Bluesky. That's all.
July 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So glad to be here on Bluesky. That's all.
Hey, it's #PrimeDay2025! Did you know we have an Amazon wishlist that focuses on the needs of our guests and residents? Currently, we have a significant need for Move-In Kits.
Check out the full list here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/inkind/
Thank you for your consideration!
Check out the full list here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/inkind/
Thank you for your consideration!
In-Kind Donations – Compass Housing Alliance
Everyone Deserves a Home There are so many things that turn a place into a home. We connect thousands of people with housing, shelter, resources, and support, but we couldn’t provide everything we do ...
www.compasshousingalliance.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hey, it's #PrimeDay2025! Did you know we have an Amazon wishlist that focuses on the needs of our guests and residents? Currently, we have a significant need for Move-In Kits.
Check out the full list here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/inkind/
Thank you for your consideration!
Check out the full list here: www.compasshousingalliance.org/inkind/
Thank you for your consideration!
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23 organizations across Washington receive funding from a state grant program for diaper banks, which provide diapers, wipes & other essentials to low-income families. In 2024, they distributed over 13 million baby products. But their funding was slashed by 50% as state budget cuts became a reality.
Free diaper program for low-income Washington families cut in half
In 2024, grant-funded organizations distributed more than 13 million baby products, but the new state budget will reduce access to these essentials.
www.cascadepbs.org
July 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
23 organizations across Washington receive funding from a state grant program for diaper banks, which provide diapers, wipes & other essentials to low-income families. In 2024, they distributed over 13 million baby products. But their funding was slashed by 50% as state budget cuts became a reality.
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For the first time, Seattle’s population topped 800,000, according to new estimates from the state’s Office of Financial Management.
Seattle passes a milestone: 800,000 people and counting
For the first time, Seattle’s population topped 800,000, according to new estimates from the state's Office of Financial Management.
www.kuow.org
July 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
For the first time, Seattle’s population topped 800,000, according to new estimates from the state’s Office of Financial Management.
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For the first time ever, Seattle has officially surpassed the 800,000 population mark, according to the latest tally from state Office of Financial Management.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/27/s...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/27/s...
June 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
For the first time ever, Seattle has officially surpassed the 800,000 population mark, according to the latest tally from state Office of Financial Management.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/27/s...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/27/s...
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"You can do everything right in your life and still end up homeless".
Rural Homelessness in Okanogan County 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4I...
occac.com
Okanogan is the largest county in WA State with a poverty rate 8.9% higher than the state’s average of 10%.
Rural Homelessness in Okanogan County 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4I...
occac.com
Okanogan is the largest county in WA State with a poverty rate 8.9% higher than the state’s average of 10%.
OCCAC Informational Videos - Rural Homelessness
YouTube video by Okanogan County Community Action Council
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"You can do everything right in your life and still end up homeless".
Rural Homelessness in Okanogan County 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4I...
occac.com
Okanogan is the largest county in WA State with a poverty rate 8.9% higher than the state’s average of 10%.
Rural Homelessness in Okanogan County 2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4I...
occac.com
Okanogan is the largest county in WA State with a poverty rate 8.9% higher than the state’s average of 10%.
Everyone deserves a home.
June 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Everyone deserves a home.
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Deeply grateful for this review of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US in @rollingstone.com:
"A stunning narrative account of the working poor whose unhoused ranks have swelled over the past generation, largely without any notice or regard from media or public agencies."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"A stunning narrative account of the working poor whose unhoused ranks have swelled over the past generation, largely without any notice or regard from media or public agencies."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
June 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Deeply grateful for this review of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US in @rollingstone.com:
"A stunning narrative account of the working poor whose unhoused ranks have swelled over the past generation, largely without any notice or regard from media or public agencies."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
"A stunning narrative account of the working poor whose unhoused ranks have swelled over the past generation, largely without any notice or regard from media or public agencies."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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On June 30, Seattle’s new rules for neighborhood zoning will take effect, allowing 4 to 6 units of housing on single-family lots. The hope is that the duplexes, cottage apartments and other “missing” housing types allowed by the rezone will cost less to buy and rent than single-family homes.
Seattle upzoned single-family neighborhoods. What will get built?
The Council passed an interim law allowing four to six units on every lot. Developers and architects share how they think this will impact the city.
www.cascadepbs.org
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
On June 30, Seattle’s new rules for neighborhood zoning will take effect, allowing 4 to 6 units of housing on single-family lots. The hope is that the duplexes, cottage apartments and other “missing” housing types allowed by the rezone will cost less to buy and rent than single-family homes.