Serving our Community And Restoring Hope

Restoring collective power to our unhoused neighbors.

Lived Experience coalition

Who We Are

Empowering marginalized voices for social change

The Washington State Lived Experience Coalition was founded upon anti-racist and anti-oppression community organizing principles and is a Black, Brown, and Indigenous led, multiracial, multicultural coalition centering leadership development of people who have experienced or are currently experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.

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Insightful Journey

Impactful Community Results

Households Experiencing Homelessness

74,288

Households experienced homelessness & received services as of 2022 (Washington State Dept. of Commerce 2022)

Permanently
Housed

38%

of households exiting to or maintaining permanent housing 28,229 (Washington State Dept. of Commerce 2022)

Return to
Homelessness

10%

of consenting households returning to homelessness : 7429 (Washington State Dept. of Commerce 2022)

Average Length
of Stays

189

days for 17,013 people served (Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing and Rapid Re-Housing in King County only, KCRHA, 1/10/22-9/30/22)

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“Who is the Voice of our unsheltered neighbors Our Forgotten and Unseen Unforgiven & undeserving and undesirable in the eyes of society.

WE the Lived Experienced Coalition make it our Mission to collectively acknowledge challenge and celebrate all walks of life by listening to the wants and needs of our community by having uncomfortable conversations with each other and those who try to Make decisions without us Individually we sing Songs unheard so Unsung by our Ancestors but together Today A Talented Harmonized choir is in the Making and as we make our way through we lift every voice and Sing LOUDER Freely and Unapologetically”

-O’kesha Brandon a Co-Founding Member of LEC

Meet Our Team

Zsa Zsa Floyd

Director of Community Partnerships and Base Building

Courtney Love

Director of State and Local Advocacy

Marvin Futrell

Director of Community Organizing and Homelessness Strategy

Brother Token

Principal Investigator Survive to Thrive Community Action Research Hub
&
Director of Communications

LaMont Green

Co-Founder and Community Organizer

Zaneta McQuarter

Director of Operations

“The power of the oppressed is the only power that can liberate both oppressed and oppressor…”

– Paulo Friere

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What People Say

This is a group that is actively working to create the type of community that we all need to live in where we care for each other and no one is considered a castaway worthy of being cast out or excluded

Cindi FisherCommunity Organizer

They changed my life, gettin’ me help, an apartment

ShellyCommunity Organizer

LEC is giving people hope and a voice to speak up an do feel like they are heard and that people actually care about them and are listening to their issues and concerns

MeganCommunity Organizer

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