Housing help that’s fast, respectful, and close to home.

We connect families to deposits, rent support, and eviction prevention—without maze-like forms or endless waits.

Born from resilience. Built for our community.

In 1860, when the last enslaved Africans arrived in Alabama, they built Africatown—a place of dignity and self-reliance in a hostile world. Africatown International carries that same spirit forward today. We started not in a boardroom, but in the streets of Seattle, when neighbors decided to solve what institutions refused to fix: housing access, move-in costs, and eviction prevention. Our work is rooted in that lineage of survival, community building, and refusing to accept that homelessness is inevitable.

What We Do

Centralized Diversion Fund (CDF)

Flexible dollars that unlock housing fast through trained partner agencies.

Rental Assistance & Eviction Prevention (RA/EP)

Move-in costs, deposits, rent support when crisis hits.

Fiscal Sponsorship & Back-Office Support

Compliance, bookkeeping, and grant access for Black-led projects.

Built by community, for community.

Africatown International isn’t just another service provider. We are parents, workers, and neighbors who’ve faced eviction notices, who’ve had to choose between rent and groceries, who’ve fought to rebuild after incarceration. That lived experience is our strength. It means when people come to us in crisis, they’re not just processed—they’re understood. Every case is handled with dignity, urgency, and the cultural fluency that makes our support feel like family, not charity.

Who We Help

Whether it’s a mother with kids facing eviction, a senior priced out of their neighborhood, or a worker one paycheck short, our promise is the same: real help, delivered with respect.

Mother with children

Senior Man Sitting at Home

Service worker

Teacher at Work

A single mother in South Seattle

Keisha had three days before the sheriff came. Her landlord wanted deposits she didn’t have. She told us: ‘I thought I had failed my kids.’ Within 24 hours, Africatown paid her deposit and negotiated with the landlord. ‘That night, I tucked my children into their own beds. I can’t describe that relief.’ Her story is one of thousands—families who are not just housed, but stabilized.

Your gift turns keys in real doors.

When you give, you don’t just support a program—you change a family’s trajectory. Your donation might be the security deposit that prevents a mother and her children from sleeping in their car. Or the bridge payment that keeps a worker housed while they start a new job. Every dollar is tracked, reported, and celebrated, because every dollar is a door opened.