Fall 2023 Update

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2023 has been a year of significant progress for Simpson Housing Services. This fall, we reached a huge milestone in our work to build a modern, dignified shelter and affordable housing facility. We demolished the Simpson United Methodist Church building and will soon begin construction on the site. We’re looking forward to celebrating our progress and sharing how you can be involved in the coming months as we reimagine shelter.  

Our current, greatest need is your support for our ongoing shelter operations and housing programs. Homelessness is a complex issue, and Simpson is growing in response to the unhoused community’s increasing needs for stable housing and supportive services. We invite you to join us by supporting Simpson Housing Services with a gift today.  

Here is how your gift will support Simpson: 

• Support the operation of our shelter and supportive housing programs. This includes running our 24-hour, extended-stay shelter and providing services like our early childhood and educational support programs.  
• Support the expansion of our housing programs. We are adding 200 new units of affordable housing and hiring more staff to support additional participants in our housing programs. This has increased our annual budget by 20 percent. 
• Support our commitment to justice and equity. We are actively working to be an anti-racist organization. A disproportionate number of unhoused community members are BIPOC. If we’re not thinking about race and racism as it relates to how people become unhoused and how they stay that way, we’re not meeting the community’s needs. 

To show up in this way for our community, we need your help. It takes $1,000,000 in private support every year to provide 24/7 shelter, stable housing, and supportive services.

As we close out the year and look ahead to 2024, we’re looking forward to sharing updates on the new shelter and ways you can be involved in the Simpson community. Together, we can meet people where they are and walk with them as they get to where they want to be—to a place where everyone has a home and homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring.