Mercy Housing: Northwest

Built in the Northwest. Built with the community.

Affordable housing is the great crisis of our time. For more individuals and families across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, the idea of home – a safe, stable, and affordable place to build a life – is out of reach.

Mercy Housing Northwest responds by designing housing around the people who would otherwise be pushed out of our communities.

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Resident services

Resident services are our most critical, proven ingredient to success.

In 2024, Mercy Housing Northwest provided services to more than 3,400 individuals, the greatest impact to date.

In 2025, Mercy Housing Northwest distributed over 637,000 lbs of food to 1,292 households through our food pantries, easing the ever-growing cost of groceries.

Mercy Scholars offers academic support to children where they live, developing relationships with a trusted adult who believes in them and works directly with their schools and parents to help students flourish.

When residents’ needs are supported, they can move out of survival mode and build for the future.

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Housing innovation

Our development pipeline prioritizes transit-oriented development, partnership, and addressing other community needs within our buildings. 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. It includes state-of-the-art facilities for Arc of King County, located directly adjacent to Angle Lake Station.

The number of homeless children enrolled in Washington State public schools has increased 28% over five years. A partnership with Mary’s Place is building an integrated campus co-locating emergency shelter and permanent affordable housing on a single site. Families can transition from crisis to stability without moving school districts or changing jobs.

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Growth and action

Endowment funds immediate-needs responses: the resident services coordinator 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.

The Endowment

What the endowment builds across the Northwest.

Across the Northwest, wages lag while rents skyrocket. Among lower-income renters, 83% pay more in rent than they can afford – forcing impossible choices between housing, food, and medicine. Mercy Housing Northwest has answered the greatest crisis of our time with an opportunity to not only house our most vulnerable neighbors, but also to provide them with the tools needed to escape generational poverty.

Here’s what stays funded, always.

Instead of a child falling behind unnoticed, we're building a mentor who's there.

Mercy Scholars pairs partnership with schools, parent engagement, and robust educational programs with a trusted mentor at Mercy Housing Northwest communities – nearly 100% of participants graduate high school. The endowment keeps that mentor in the building.

Instead of shelter today and a waitlist tomorrow, we're building both on one site.

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.

Instead of losing good people to burnout, we're building the support that keeps them.

The resident services staff who notice a problem before it becomes a crisis are Mercy Housing Northwest’s most critical investment. The endowment supports our staff regardless of grant approvals.