Housing Support
Help with the most immediate need at reentry: a place to live. Rooted connects community members leaving incarceration with stable housing — through direct support and through partnerships with landlords willing to look beyond a record.
Who it serves
BIPOC adults returning from incarceration in King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties who don't have a confirmed housing placement at release, or whose housing has fallen through in the months after.
How it works
At its core, Housing Support meets people at the gap between release and stable housing. The work begins, when possible, before release — coordinating with case managers and family to confirm a placement. At the moment of release, our team provides emergency placement when nothing else is in place.
From there, the support shifts to landlord navigation: building relationships with property owners willing to rent to people with records, and standing alongside community members through the application process. Where financial assistance opens a door — security deposits, application fees, bridging the first months of rent — we provide it directly.
Once someone is housed, we stay in relationship: helping with lease compliance, working with landlords through any conflict, and bridging to longer-term housing programs as community members qualify.
Eligibility
BIPOC community members in our service area who are recently released or facing housing instability connected to a recent incarceration. Self-referrals are welcome alongside referrals from partner programs.
Outcome
Stable housing in the first 90 days post-release dramatically improves every other reentry outcome — health, employment, family reunification, the ability to even meet probation conditions.
Our goal is that no one we work with sleeps in a car, on a cousin's floor as long-term housing, or returns to incarceration because they had nowhere to land.