The Washington State Department of Commerce’s Housing Trust Fund Supplemental budget approved this week in the Legislature includes $3 million in direct appropriation to Columbia Cascade Housing Corporation’s proposed Assisted Living Facility in Western Klickitat County.  The money is intended to leverage additional federal, state and local resources to construct the facility.  Klickitat County acquired the seven-acre parcel and immediately leased the property to CCHC, which has advanced predevelopment and design efforts for the 52 unit facility where 16 units will provide memory care services and the remaining 36 dedicated to assisted living.  Not less than 25% of the development will be affordable to households earning at or below 50% of the area median income.  CCHC Executive Director Joel Madsen acknowledges they will need to keep focus on raising the rest of the capital needed in order to make the development happen, noting a number of steps must be taken before they can break ground.