Shared Housing Services Tacoma

901 South 11th Street
Tacoma, WA 98405

253-272-1532 Visit Website

Class of Housing/Services: Shared Housing Services, Transitional Housing

General Information:
Shared Housing Services facilitates matches between homeproviders and homeseekers for mutual reduced housing costs and interpersonal support to maintain independence. Shared Housing Services is an independent, nonprofit 50l(C)3 social service agency working cooperatively with other community agencies to ensure basic needs of low-income community members are met. SHS originated out of expressed needs of a senior member of Immanuel Presbyterian Church for someone to live in her home. She was falling occasionally (early stages of Parkinson's disease) and needed the security of having someone ' home. The first office space was ' IPC office building. SHS began providing services on October 1, 1991 to Tacoma/Pierce County residents from this location. Homesharing reduces and prevents homelessness by providing a viable, affordable housing option for low- and very low-income individuals and families in transition, and disabled persons 'ir own homes. SHS does this by meeting homeowners' need for companionship, home-making services (cooking, errands, housework, yard work), personal care, childcare, or additional Income. Living expenses are reduced for one or both parties by homesharing. More costly housing or institutional care is avoided for disabled and elderly individuals. Maximum use of existing housing and preservation of neighborhoods are fostered. Over years of attempting to assist homeless families to find homeshare situations, it became obvious that for families seeking housing who had two or more children homesharing was not a viable option. Homes were not large enough to accommodate these families and most of these families were experiencing serious financial problems that needed to be addressed. Shared Housing Services provides transitional family housing for up to ten low income, homeless, families along with a program facilitating family self-sufficiency.

Website: http://www.sharedhousingservices.org/

Helpful Definitions For Shared Housing Services Tacoma:
Shared Housing Programs helps bring low income persons together and helps prevent homelessness by providing affordable housing options. This service is good for families, disabled persons, and others wanted more companionship. ShelterListings.org finds these shared housing locations and lists them throughout our website.

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