Requirements
Your Participation in ManagementThe Aloha works when the residents make it work. Each person has a role in management. This is true democracy!
15 Hours of Work Each Week
Each resident works a minimum of 15 hours every week in one or more of the work areas or the committees. These 15 hours are paid a non-taxable training wage of $1 per hour. You can use this $15 each week to pay most of your rent.
Weekly Rent is $15-25
You can't find a better bargain in town. Rent is $15 per week for the first two weeks, and $25 weekly thereafter. (Rent stays at $15 for those people on GAU.) You can use your $15 training wage to help pay your rent easily.
Sobriety on the Premises
The Aloha Inn is a clean and sober environment. Alcohol, illegal drugs and intoxication are absolutely forbidden on the premises. Drug use at any time during your stay is forbidden as well. We conduct surprise UAs.
Saving $80 Per Week
The Screening Committee monitors each resident in saving a minimum of $80 per week in a bank, for permanent housing ($60 if on GAU). At the end of a nine month successful stay at the Aloha Inn, you will have $3,000 and a good housing reference, with which to move into decent, stable housing.
How It Works
The Aloha Inn is resident managed, a national model program. At the Aloha Inn, you don't just work on your own Personal Success Plan. You also help run the whole program, so you can help others while you help yourself.
Day To Day Operations
Day to day operations and upkeep at the Aloha are both done and run by the residents. Department Heads in different areas are chosen by the residents. In turn they make sure that residents are scheduled for and complete tasks in their area - desk duty, kitchen, clean up, etc. Each resident works 15 hours weekly in these departments or committees (mandatory).
Governance
All residents meet together once each week at the General Assembly. Residents make decisions on big issues and elect an Executive Committee of five residents. The Executive Committee rules on disciplinary action, terminations from the program, and decides day to day issues.
The General Assembly also elects a Screening Committee of residents. It makes sure that residents stick to their Personal Success Plan, particularly the rent and savings. It also decides on new residents for the Aloha.
This type of democracy is challenging and it is not for everybody. But if you want a stake in running our home, maybe it's for you.
"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
Day to day operations and upkeep at the Aloha are both done and run by the residents. Department Heads in different areas are chosen by the residents. In turn they make sure that residents are scheduled for and complete tasks in their area - desk duty, kitchen, clean up, etc. Each resident works 15 hours weekly in these departments or committees (mandatory).
Governance
All residents meet together once each week at the General Assembly. Residents make decisions on big issues and elect an Executive Committee of five residents. The Executive Committee rules on disciplinary action, terminations from the program, and decides day to day issues.
The General Assembly also elects a Screening Committee of residents. It makes sure that residents stick to their Personal Success Plan, particularly the rent and savings. It also decides on new residents for the Aloha.
This type of democracy is challenging and it is not for everybody. But if you want a stake in running our home, maybe it's for you.
"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
How to Apply
Everyone MUST apply in person. We do not mail, e-mail or fax applications under any circumstances whatsoever. Applications are NOT available at the Aloha.
Applications are filled out in Downtown Seattle each Wednesday from 10 a.m. till 12 noon, and Thursday from 5 - 7 p.m. at the 116 Stewart Street, WA 98101, (First and Stweart). Screening Committee members are there to help you with the application.
Tenemos aplicaciones en espaņol.
Valid, legal picture identification (state driver's license, state ID, passport, military ID, tribal ID, Green Card) is required at the time of application and interview. No exceptions, photocopies, or other ID allowed.
Qualified applicants are then interviewed within several days at the Aloha by the Screening Committee. Decisions on applications are made shortly thereafter.
We generally have a very short waiting list after applications have been approved.
For additional resources, please visit the Community Information Line at www.crisisclinic.org. If you have any additional questions, please contact us at (206) 283-6070.
The Aloha Inn accommodates people with disabilities. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
TTY users, call the State Relay at 1-800-833-6384.
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