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A local nonprofit organization is hosting its fundraising gala this year with a focus on the importance of stable housing for children while going through the school system.
Housing Hope is holding its Stone Soup event 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 15, at the Tulalip Resort, 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd. The RSVP deadline is Friday, May 1. A ticket costs $50 per person. Tickets are available here.
One of the topics the event will highlight is Scriber Place, a 52-unit affordable housing project in Lynnwood dedicated to Edmonds School District (ESD) students and their families.
The groundbreaking ceremony for Scriber Place happened in October 2025 next to Cedar Valley Community School. The My Neighborhood News Group (MNNG) reported that construction is expected to finish by December 2026.
Scriber Place is the first of its kind in Washington state. It will sit on a 2.2-acre parcel of surplus school district land, and it has a total development cost of $38.7 million. Housing Hope will fund, construct and manage the housing community.
Half of the units at Scriber Place will be for households at or below 30% of the area median income, and the other half will be for households at or below 50% of the area median income. There will be one two-story building and three buildings that are three stories.
Joan Penney, Housing Hope’s senior director of resource development, marketing and communications, told the MNNG that this year’s Stone Soup will also feature a “special presentation” from ESD staffer Francisco Gonzalez Robles and some high school theater students.
Gonzalez Robles is the school district’s homeless, foster care and migrant student coordinator. Penney said Gonzalez Robles and the students will discuss the impacts of being unhoused while trying to attend school.
“There are just under 4,000 homeless students who attend schools in Snohomish County,” Penney said. “Housing Hope believes we can play a critical role with the Scriber Place housing model to change the trajectory of those numbers.”
During the Stone Soup event, Housing Hope will also celebrate the nonprofit’s employee of the year, volunteer of the year and the Edwin Petersen Pioneer Award winner.
Last year’s Stone Soup event attracted more than 500 attendees and more than $450,000 in donations, Housing Hope CEO Kathryn Opina wrote in a post May 2025.
Angelica Relente is a Murrow News Fellow covering housing and related issues in South Snohomish County for the My Neighborhood News Group. Contact her at [email protected].
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