Let’s build homes, community, opportunity, and stability on the Eastside — together
Dear Friends,
In 2025, Imagine Housing continued to collaborate with individuals like you, as well as city and county staff, elected officials, and multiple faith-based communities. It is through these collaborations that Imagine Housing remains a vital member of the Eastside community.
As a member of this community, you know the need for affordable housing is immense. We are challenging ourselves to meet those needs across the Eastside. Through partnerships, creative solutions, and supporters like you, Imagine Housing is poised to double the number of units and, therefore, residents served, over the next five years.
Together, we continue to scale our efforts to meet the region’s critical need for affordable housing, ensuring that the high-opportunity Eastside cities where we live, work, and play remain welcoming, diverse, and vibrant for residents of all income levels.
Because of your support, 1,572 individuals—including seniors, veterans, those living with disabilities, and working parents—had a stable place to call home last year. In the pages of this annual report, you will see exactly how your generosity is transforming our community, building stability, and changing lives.
Thank you for supporting a vibrant community that helps to strengthen the Eastside one home at a time, one neighbor at a time.
With gratitude,
Yi Zhao
President
Laura Coughlin
Board President
WHO WE SERVE
Imagine Housing doesn’t just build buildings. We bring together affordable housing and resident services for 1,500 people each year.
Residents include families, veterans, single parents, youth and adults who have experienced homelessness, survivors of domestic violence, and people on a fixed income due to age, health, or disability.
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permanently affordable apartments
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YOUR IMPACT
You build homes, community, opportunity, and stability on the Eastside.
Because of your support, a diverse team of skilled professionals can deliver individualized care that meets every person where they are.
When you invest in Imagine Housing, you are tailoring resident programs to fit the unique needs of each community. You are providing basic needs supplies, connections to community health and social services, and bringing people together through joyful, socially engaging events.
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4,345 paper products
6,023 hygiene products
6,769 cleaning supplies
RESIDENT SERVICES
From direct case management to collaborating with program partners, Imagine Housing Case Managers supported residents for 6,833 hours.
The graph below shows the distribution of case management hours across all Imagine Housing communities in 2025.
"Finding the resources out there is difficult to navigate yourself, so it's nice to have the comfort of knowing someone else has your back."
—a resident at Johnson Hill,
an Imagine Housing community in Issaquah
Imagine Housing’s resident programming offers individualized support and opportunity—and this is proven to be vital to housing stability.
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STRONGER TOGETHER
By partnering side-by-side with local service providers, we enrich residents’ lives, promote housing stability, and ensure we maximize community resources without duplicating efforts.
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program partners enriched residents' lives
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Meet Nathan
When Nathan thinks back to when he was younger, he thinks about the kind of life he wants for his daughters and the young people he hopes to help one day. After a childhood he describes as “very dark… very scary,” Nathan spent years carrying the weight of trauma into adulthood. The consequences were profound: instability, homelessness, and estrangement from his ex-wife and daughters.
Now, he has stable housing, the support of an Imagine Housing Case Manager, and a community that believes in him.
"This is a place where I can add tools to my toolbox, and I'm really looking forward to using those new tools."
Here's the rest in his own words...
IMAGINE HOUSING COMMUNITIES
Our team works continuously to increase the availability of new affordable housing options on the Eastside. Hover over the three interactive icons below to learn more about the properties in the Imagine Housing's Development Pipeline.
Expected to break ground in 2027
Expected to break ground in 2028
Expected to break ground in 2028