King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski hosted City of Kenmore officials, Mary’s Place CEO Dominique Alex, King County Council Budget Chair Girmay Zahilay, elected officials from throughout North King County, representatives from Lake City Partners and the North Urban Human Services Alliance, and King County’s Department of Community and Human Services Director Kelly Rider to thank Mary’s Place for its years of operating the shelter and to welcome Lake City Partners.
Aug. 21, 2024 – King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski hosted representatives from the City of Kenmore and other partners to announce and welcome a new senior women’s shelter in what was formerly the Mary’s Place Northshore shelter, a King County owned property.
The new senior women’s shelter, which will be operated by Lake City Partners Ending Homelessness, was made possible thanks to $675,000 in funding secured by Dembowski in King County’s spring supplemental budget.
Lake City Partners plans to re-open the facility as a senior women’s shelter to provide a safe place for women over the age of 60 currently experiencing homelessness. The goal is to provide the seniors services to facilitate their transition into permanent, shared housing in a period of under a year.
“Lake City Partners are thrilled to be opening a Senior Women's Shelter program in Kenmore,” said William Towey, Executive Director of Lake City Partners Ending Homelessness. “One of our fastest growing subgroups of unsheltered clients are very low-income seniors. This new shelter program will provide a much-needed increase in capacity to our North King County homelessness response -- one that serves senior women, a particularly vulnerable subset of our unsheltered clients.”
The new shelter is anticipated to open by the end of 2024 and will have space for up to 35 senior women at a time.
Source: King County press release
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