Funding will support housing strategies to increase urban residential building capacity and streamline development regulation in 28 communities across Washington state. OLYMPIA, WA – Decades of underbuilding homes at all income levels has created a supply and demand imbalance playing out today in the affordable housing and homelessness crisis in communities across Washington state. One study suggests the shortage is more than 225,000 units. To help communities address this growing…
The Washington State Department of Commerce is initiating this Request for Proposals (RFP) to solicit proposals from organizations interested in participating in a project to work in collaboration with the Affordable Housing Advisory Board (AHAB) to inform the legislature on issues related to condominium conversions, under the requirements in ESSB 5758, Chapter 165, Laws of 2022. The Contractor will assist Commerce and the AHAB project committee in gathering data, conducting…
The Washington State Department of Commerce is seeking applications for the 2023 state fiscal year from qualified owners/operators of permanent supportive housing (PSH) projects to fund operating and maintenance costs and reimbursement for the cost of supportive services offered to clients in PSH units. Qualified applicants must own or operate multifamily housing projects funded by the Washington State Housing Trust Fund or other public capital funding sources. Applications will be…
Instead of tweaking individual cells in your data set, make adjustments to a whole table, row or column. Which spreadsheet would you prefer to work with? à Table 1: Before Formatting Fun …
No dataset is perfect, but good data helps improve the good work already being done to help people experiencing homelessness across Washington. Data is important, and there is a report for that. It is the Data Quality Report (DQR). What is the DQR? The DQR reviews data quality for many HMIS data elements and helps us understand how our programs and projects are doing with data quality. For an overview…
The power of data filters is that they can help you find information quickly and increase efficiency. Hours of slowly scrolling a large dataset for a certain piece of information can be replaced by a few clicks. What is a Filter? A filter finds and displays all cell values that match a certain criterion. The data in your spreadsheet can be filtered by text, number or color. How to turn…
OLYMPIA, WA – The Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) yesterday approved $8,272,040 million in grants and $1,975,000 in low-interest loans for planning, economic development and rural broadband infrastructure construction projects. Five rural broadband projects were approved for nearly $8 million in funding from the CERB coronavirus capital projects fund, enabling an estimated 3,362 high-speed internet connections once completed. Projects are located in Grays Harbor, Kitsap, Mason, Skagit and…
Community Development Block Grants fund wide range of high-priority local projects, including public water, sewer, emergency and fire protection systems, streets, housing, food pantries and more. OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington State Department of Commerce today announced 20 rural cities, towns and counties will receive a total of more than $11.4 million in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for 2021. The 22 projects funded will: improve rural water, sewer, streets,…
Who is included in Washington state’s vaccination and masking requirement? Here is a brief overview: All Commerce employees — including those working remotely — must be vaccinated by Oct. 18 unless approved for a medical or religious exemption. When working in person or onsite at a Commerce location, ALL independent contractors, grantees, service providers and volunteers must comply with the requirement to verify vaccination status AND wear a mask. If your contract or work…
In Excel, if you write a formula in a cell, it is common for it to contain a cell reference, which means the formula points to a value in one or more other cells. In the example below, the formula in cell E2 references cells B2, C2 and D2. It determines the total number of phone cards requested during the quarter by adding together the requests in April (B2), May…