Letter of Intent

Dear Weyerhauser Company Foundation,

I am writing to you on behalf of the Northwest Housing Oranization, a 501(C)(3) organization that works to increase low-income housing in the city of Seattle. Specifically, we build and support low-income housing programs in Seattle's Capitol Hill, South Lake Union, and Beacon Hill neighborhoods. Our organization intends to create safe and inclusive communities for individuals and families that are at risk of becoming or are currently homeless. For over twelve years we have successfully built and restored eleven high and low rise apartment buildings as well as six traditional houses in order to create what everyone fundamentally derserves - a home.

Currently, we are developing a plan that would create a fifty person apartment complex in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on the block of 13th Avenue and Jefferson Street. This housing project will provide a safe environment for single parent families to live and create supportive community. As studies show, single parent families are four times as likely to become homeless as those supported by two adults. Additionally, homelessness for single family households has climbed 2% every year since 2006 within Seattle. The requirements to live in the 13th and Jefferson apartment complex would include: a past history of homelessness within the family, no criminal drug records, and a total family income of less than $25,000 a year. We intend to being building on May 26th, 2009 and finish by September 15th 2009.

Attached is a detailed form that provides a budgetary breakdown of how we intend on carrying out a greatly needed project. Please consider the information we have provided and the Seattle families that depend on organizations like our own, Northwest Housing Organization. Thank you for your time and consideration.