About Us

Justice Housing Yakima is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2016 to find solutions for affordable housing in Yakima County. Board members come from a variety of backgrounds but all share a passion for working in the community and addressing issues of homelessness. We are guided by these core principles:

• Every person needs a home
• Every person deserves dignity and respect
• Every person should live in a safe & healthy community

Our board members and advisors have extensive experience working with housing and homeless persons, including emergency shelters, service providers, and outreach workers; some of our Board members have experienced homelessness themselves. Our collective experience in government, non-profit, and for-profit organizations, as well as our experience working in the community, has led us to operate with these additional principles in mind:

• All voices should be heard—the directors, the clients, and everyone in the community
• Providing housing solutions should be a community effort
• We need permanent solutions, not temporary band-aids