![]() ![]() With Rutherford’s help, Munro was able to secure a home this past summer. "Housing provides me security and privacy." ![]() “I was working at the time and really it was just getting into an apartment, which seemed almost impossible,” he said. I don't need a rehab program or job training,” Munro told Rutherford. He had narrowed down his needs to just housing. ![]() “I sent Tisza an email, she got back to me, and then we sat down, and I explained my situation and what I needed assistance with,” said Munro. One individual who contacted her and was a good fit was Nicholas Munro. “If an individual seems responsible and that they would be fairly easy to move into housing, but just have some barriers, then I know that they would be a good fit.”Īt any given time, Rutherford has 25 to 30 clients that she thinks, based on her screening questions and experience, would be a good match for the program. “If an individual comes to me and they are looking for a home, I will typically find out their housing history and some general screening questions about employment, income, and credit history,” she said. Housing Connector partners with landlords around King County, Pierce County, and Denver, Colorado, to reduce screening criteria to help individuals get into homes where they might have had barriers getting into traditional housing before, explained Rutherford. This partnership is one of the numerous ways that the City is providing housing choices for all. In Redmond’s first six months of contracting with Housing Connector, a program committed to lowering barriers to housing and increasing the region’s affordable housing capacity, 18 households have found homes through the program. Tisza Rutherford, Redmond's Homeless Outreach Administrator Tisza Rutherford, Redmond’s Homeless Outreach AdministratorĮnhancing Livability with Housing Connections This program is launching people into housing much faster and sets them up for success.” Without this opportunity with Housing Connector, they would probably be continuing to do that, while whittling away at their credit and paying off past debt. “I work with individuals who could have moved into housing years ago - many of them living in their cars, while also working. ![]()
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