Washington hit record eviction numbers in 2024. Oregon’s unsheltered population has grown 23% since 2020, and families with children are more likely to be unsheltered here than in any other state. In Seattle, high-priority housing applicants face wait times of up to twelve years.
Mercy Housing Northwest responds by designing housing around the people who would otherwise be priced out of the market.
Across seven King County communities, embedded community health workers engage more than 3,000 residents through culturally responsive support. The Mercy Scholars program takes a three-pronged approach — school data sharing, parent education, and one-on-one mentoring.
At communities where it operates, nearly 100% of participating students graduate high school. In 2024, Mercy Housing Northwest provided services to more than 2,500 individuals.
Connection Angle Lake in SeaTac — opened August 2025 — is the first affordable housing community in Washington state focused on supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, developed in partnership with Sound Transit and located directly adjacent to Angle Lake Station.
A partnership with Mary’s Place created the first integrated campus co-locating emergency shelter and permanent affordable housing on a single site.
Endowment funds immediate-needs responses: the case manager who finds the right scholarship the night before the application closes, the staff member who secures an adapted unit for a senior resident who needs it today.
Not dependent on grant approval timelines.
In Seattle, even the highest-priority applicants can wait up to 12 years for housing support. Mercy Housing Northwest has answered with transit-connected design, a shelter-to-housing campus on a single site, and a team that shows up the night a family needs them. Here’s what stays funded, always.
Mercy Scholars pairs school data sharing, parent engagement, and one-on-one mentoring at Mercy Housing Northwest communities — nearly 100% of participants graduate high school. The endowment keeps that mentor in the building.
With Mary’s Place, Mercy Housing Northwest created a first-of-its-kind campus where emergency shelter and permanent housing sit side by side — so a family never has to start over with new caseworkers, new schools, new everything. The endowment funds the next idea this honest about how hard transitions are.
The community health workers and resident services staff who notice a problem before it becomes a crisis are Mercy Housing Northwest’s most critical investment. The endowment funds the training, caseloads, and stability that let them stay.
The Mercy Builds endowment
The Mercy Builds endowment is built gift by gift — each one a permanent part of the foundation. Arrange a conversation with the philanthropy team to find your role.
