Housing Hope to close cafe, furniture store
EVERETT — Housing Hope will close two businesses used to provide job training to individuals with barriers to accessing employment, the nonprofit announced Friday, citing financial difficulties as the reason for the closures.
The businesses, Kindred Cafe and Renew Home and Decor, are operated by Housing Hope, the Snohomish County-based affordable housing nonprofit. Kindred Cafe, which opened in 2019, serves food and coffee from its location on Broadway in Everett. It will close Jan. 30. Renew Home and Decor, a used furniture store also located on Broadway in Everett, will close on March 31.
Those are what Housing Hope calls enterprise businesses, used to provide job training to people in need through a program the nonprofit operates called HopeWorks. That program began in 2011, initially as a separate nonprofit, before merging with Housing Hope.
Housing Hope will continue to provide job training through its HopeWorks program after the closures. Although its cafe will no longer operate, Kindred Kitchen will continue to provide catering services and job training.
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