KCHA's updated voucher payment standards take effect on January 1, 2021.

We will close early on Thursday, Dec. 31 and re-open operations on Monday, Jan. 4. Wishing you and yours a healthy, happy 2021.

Though our offices are closed to walk-in traffic, we’re still here to serve you. Watch as Executive Director Stephen Norman expresses the heartfelt sentiment of each of us here at KCHA: We Miss You!

KCHA, along with the Seattle, Tacoma and Renton housing authorities, wrote an op-ed decrying the termination of HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. The action repeals rules that have provided critical tools for dismantling historic racism in housing. Instead it prioritizes local control of housing policy over federal interventions to address the legacy of segregation, in effect giving localities a green light to discriminate.

Stephen J. Norman, Executive Director, KCHA, has issued a public statement addressing the long-standing impacts of systemic racial discrimination, and the need to dismantle racism and eliminate inherent white advantage wherever it exists.

To protect the health and safety of our staff, clients, and community partners, and to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, all KCHA offices are closed to walk-ins until further notice. Our staff will continue to be available by telephone and email during this time.

In "Microsoft Learns Money Alone Can't Fix Seattle's Housing Mess", reporter Noah Buhayar highlights KCHA's approach to acquisition and preservation of affordable housing, with some assistance from Microsoft's affordable housing pledge.

Microsoft, King County, and KCHA are partnering in a combined $245 million investment to protect 1,029 units of affordable housing located near transit hubs or in booming real estate markets in the region.

As the first partnership to originate from Microsoft's $500 million pledge to address homelessness and develop affordable housing in the region, KCHA received a $60 million below-market interest rate loan from Microsoft to purchase five apartment complexes: Kirkland Heights, Juanita View, and Emerson in KIrkland; Kendall Ridge in Bellevue; and Riverstone Apartments in Federal Way.  Funding for these acquisitions also includes a $20 million below-market rate loan and credit enhancement from King County and $140 million in bonds issued by KCHA.