Of 8,034 King County supportive housing beds, 15 are labeled sober

What this chart asks

Who runs Seattle-King County's supportive housing, and how much of it is labeled sober?

Why it is shown this way

• One ranked bar per operator shows that every large operator has hundreds or thousands of beds, and only DESC has any sober-labeled beds.
• All bars share one color, so no color has a meaning to decode; the one sober project is named in a callout on DESC's bar instead of a bar too thin to see.
• The 18 smallest operators are combined in the last row so the chart stays readable; none of them has a sober-labeled project.

Chart annotations

These markers provide relevant context for interpreting the chart. Their timing or position does not, by itself, establish causation.

15 sober beds

DESC

DESC's Kerner Scott Clean and Sober (15 beds) is the one supportive housing project in the 2025 count labeled sober.

Data and accessibility

The chart's data and images are in the strip under it.

Dataset king-county-supportive-housing-sober-beds, analysis beds-by-operator

Sources

This chart draws on the sources of the dataset versions it visualizes.

Sober-labeled beds in Seattle-King County supportive housing, 2023-2025

1. HUD 2025 Continuum of Care Housing Inventory Count Report, WA-500 Seattle/King County CoC Supportive housing bed totals for 2025 and the project list used to find sober-labeled projects

   Retrieved November 10, 2026. Public domain (U.S. government work). Free to redistribute

   Reliability: Government. Published by HUD from data the local homelessness authority submits for its own system each January. It counts beds and units, not the rules projects follow.

2. HUD 2024 Continuum of Care Housing Inventory Count Report, WA-500 Seattle/King County CoC Supportive housing bed totals and project list for 2024

   Retrieved November 10, 2026. Public domain (U.S. government work). Free to redistribute

   Reliability: Government. Published by HUD from data the local homelessness authority submits each January.

3. HUD 2023 Continuum of Care Housing Inventory Count Report, WA-500 Seattle/King County CoC Supportive housing bed totals and project list for 2023

   Retrieved November 10, 2026. Public domain (U.S. government work). Free to redistribute

   Reliability: Government. Published by HUD from data the local homelessness authority submits each January.

4. Oxford House vacancy directory, Washington King County Oxford House count and beds

   Retrieved November 10, 2026. Not stated. Counts only; no directory content is redistributed

   Reliability: Other. Directory kept by Oxford House, Inc., the nonprofit that charters the houses. Each house lists its city, county and number of beds.

Limitations

• A project counts as sober-labeled only if its name says so; the federal count records no sobriety rule, so a sober project with an ordinary name would be missed.
• Operators' beds are as HUD's count lists them; their own counts can differ.
• The two housing authorities and the King County Veterans Program list beds that are mostly HUD-VASH vouchers veterans use to rent apartments.