Supportive housing beds by year

What this dataset measures

The Housing Inventory Count is the count the Seattle-King County homelessness system itself submits to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) each January, project by project. It is the most complete public list of supportive housing in the county. Oxford Houses are the largest network of sober homes in the county with a public, house-by-house directory.

Geography

King County, Washington, United States

Unit of observation

Beds, by year (supportive housing) or by type of housing (comparison table)

Update cadence

Yearly, when HUD publishes the next Housing Inventory Count report

Curator

FactHub Research Team

Curated data tables

Supportive housing beds by year

Permanent supportive housing beds in the Seattle-King County Housing Inventory Count, and how many are in projects labeled clean and sober.

Unit of observation: One Housing Inventory Count year

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All 3 rows

year	psh_beds beds	sober_labeled_beds beds	other_beds beds	sober_labeled_share_pct percent
2023	7251	15	7236	0.21
2024	7768	15	7753	0.19
2025	8034	15	8019	0.19

5 field definitions

Field	Type	Meaning	Units	Value type
year	integer	Year of the January count	—	observed
psh_beds	integer	All permanent supportive housing beds (family beds plus adult-only beds)	beds	observed
sober_labeled_beds	integer	Beds in supportive housing projects whose name says clean and sober (only DESC's Kerner Scott Clean and Sober)	beds	observed
other_beds	integer	Supportive housing beds with no sober label	beds	derived
sober_labeled_share_pct	number	Sober-labeled beds as a share of all supportive housing beds	percent	derived

Sources

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.

License: FactHub's selection, cleaning and combined tables are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source data keeps the terms listed above (terms).

Limitations and reproducibility

Reproducible from public sources: Each total is printed in the HUD Housing Inventory Count report for CoC WA-500 (summary table: family beds plus adult-only beds for Permanent Supportive Housing). The sober-labeled row is the project 'Kerner Scott Clean and Sober' in each year's project list; we searched every project name for clean, sober, recovery, abstinence and treatment. The Oxford House count is the sum of King County houses and beds in the Oxford House vacancy directory on November 10, 2026.

• The Housing Inventory Count has no field for whether a project requires sobriety or treatment. Projects are counted as sober-labeled only if their name says so; a sober project with an ordinary name would be missed.
• At least one sober supportive housing building, Catholic Community Services' Traugott Terrace (50 units, abstinence required), does not appear in the 2025 count under that name, so the count may miss some sober housing.
• The count covers housing dedicated to people who were homeless. Some county Health Through Housing hotel sites are listed as emergency shelter rather than supportive housing.
• The comparison table mixes dates: supportive housing beds are from January 2025, Oxford House beds from November 2026.
• Oxford Houses are not supportive housing: they are shared homes run by residents, who pay rent, and most stays are shorter.