Community Action Center Is Awarded Grant to Build New Affordable Housing in Pullman

Community Action Center was recently awarded $800,000 from the Washington State Housing Trust to build RiverView Apartments, a fifty-six-unit
complex that will provide affordable housing in the City of Pullman. The RiverView project will
be located just southeast of Pullman Regional Hospital and directly east of the Palouse Business
Park off Fairmont Road, which is within walking distance of retail services, employment
opportunities and public transportation. The tentative completion date is summer 2019.
Priority households for RiverView Apartments will include homeless families with children,
people with disabilities, veterans and large families. Twenty-eight units will be rented to
households with the lowest income (less than 30% of median); twenty-seven units will be
rented to households with very low income (less than 50% of median); and, one unit will be
rented to a resident manager.
“Our goal at CAC is to help every Whitman County resident improve their ability to be in stable
housing, and to increase long-term self-sufficiency,” says Jeff Guyett, Director of Community
Action Center. “Last year we were able to house 206 families — now we can do better, for
more.”
In the 2018 Washington State legislative session, lawmakers allocated $67.8 million for
competitive funding to create new affordable housing units.
“We considered a combination of factors, including a delayed capital budget, the current
affordable housing and homelessness crisis around the state, and the high level of project
readiness displayed in the 2017 application pool,” said Corina Grigoras, managing director of
the housing finance unit at Washington Department of Commerce. “We determined that the
best use of funds would be to allocate the majority now, while reserving sufficient resources to
hold a 2018 competitive application round later this year.”
For more information about RiverView Apartments and Community Action Center, visit the CAC
website at www.cacwhitman.org.
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Since 1988 Community Action Center (CAC) has been building healthy communities in Whitman
County by promoting self-reliance of people with low to moderate income; cooperation among
communities to enhance social and economic resource development and, greater awareness to
help communities address the causes of poverty. CAC is a private, 501(c)(3) charitable
organization.