||| FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS |||


San Juan County Health & Community Services (HCS) has released a Notice of Funds Available (NOFA) for the 2025 funding round for the Home Fund program. Applications will be accepted starting June 2, 2025, with responses being due no later than July 15, 2025. HCS staff are available for pre-application meetings throughout the month of May.

Eligible recipients are nonprofit agencies, housing authorities, private for-profit affordable housing providers, and public agencies.

Applications will be solicited to establish a list of projects for funding in 2025. Eligible activities for this funding round include acquisition, building, rehabilitation, and maintenance of housing for very low, low, and moderate-income persons and those with special needs, including both rental and home ownership housing.

San Juan County is making $2,700,000 available for the 2025 funding round, with awards expected to be announced by the San Juan County Council in late Fall 2025.

The NOFA, application forms and other information are available on the Application Information tab on the Home Fund webpage: https://sjchomefund.com/applicant-information.

To schedule a pre-application meeting, or for more information on the Home Fund, the 2025 funding round, the NOFA, or other general questions please contact Housing Program Coordinator Ryan Page at ryanp@sanjuancountywa.gov, or visit the Home Fund webpage at: https://sjchomefund.com/.

For more information on the affordable housing programs managed by Health & Community services visit the County website at: https://www.sanjuanco.com/896/Affordable-Housing.

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About San Juan County’s Department of Health & Community Services    

San Juan County’s Department of Health and Community Services is responsible for community and environmental health, mental health and substance abuse programs, senior services, affordable housing projects, and more. The department has staff and offices on Lopez, Orcas, and San Juan Islands. For more information about San Juan County’s Department of Health and Community Services, visit www.sanjuanco.com/1777/Health-Community-Services.



 

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