King County Eviction Prevention and Rent Assistance Program

Updated 8/24/2020. King County recently announced a $41M rental assistance program for individuals and families throughout King County economically impacted by COVID-19 due to illness, lost wages and unemployment.

To be eligible for assistance, all tenants must have an income that is at or below 50 percent of the Area Median Income over the past 60 days, and must be partially or fully behind at least one month of rent since March 1, 2020. Tenants must also meet one of several secondary criteria, such as having high rent burden, a history of homelessness or eviction, or a disability.

A new web portal is now open and accepting applications from individual tenants, large and small property managers and landlords, and mobile home parks. In many cases, recipients of funding will be chosen via a lottery system to ensure more applicants have an opportunity for assistance, rather than funding those who sign up first. Applicants may be awarded up to three months of rent. 

Applications (orange buttons) can be found half way down the webpage

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/community-human-services/COVID/eviction-prevention-rent-assistance.aspx

The $41.4 million funding for the program comes from the King County COVID Relief Fund ($9.8M); federal CARES Act funding awarded to King County from the Washington State Department of Commerce ($28.7 M); Community Development Block Grant funding ($1.7 M); and funding from the voter-approved Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy ($1.2 M).