The Department of Commerce (Commerce) is soliciting applications for new multifamily rental affordable housing projects seeking capital funding from Washington State’s HOME or National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) federal programs, administered by the Multifamily Housing Unit (MHU).
Donor Name: Washington State Department of Commerce
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/16/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
For the purposes of this NOFA, Multifamily Rental Housing refers to a project intended to provide habitable space to more than one household (including single-person households). Multifamily Rental Housing can take any of the following forms:
- A single building consisting of two or more distinct units, each of which is inhabited by an unrelated household. This encompasses a continuum from duplexes to high rise apartment buildings
- A set of at least two structures, initially constructed as housing for unrelated households, which is managed as a single functional unit. This includes single-residency houses that are owned and managed by a single entity
- A building, or set of buildings, which by initial design or through adaptive renovations, is used to provide sleeping space to more than one single individual, with shared living, food preparation, and sanitary facilities. This includes shelters, dormitory-style housing (e.g. for seasonal farmworkers), and group home facilities.
Grant Period
12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants include:
- Local governments
- Local housing authorities
- Nonprofit community or neighborhood-based organizations
- Federally recognized Indian tribes in the state of Washington
- Regional support networks established under RCW Chapter 71.24
- Regional or statewide nonprofit housing assistance organizations.
For more information, visit WSDC.
