Neurohomes Foundation

NeuroHomes Foundation is building permanent supportive housing for neurodivergent adults in rural Wahkiakum County, WA and Clatsop County, OR, communities that have historically had no housing options designed with autistic and neurodivergent people in mind.

The Problem

Neurodivergent adults face a housing crisis that is structural, not incidental. Autistic adults are unemployed or underemployed at rates exceeding 80%. SSI income, the primary income source for many disabled adults, caps at figures that make market-rate rent mathematically impossible in nearly every county in the United States. Group homes and congregate care settings, the default options for those who cannot afford private housing, frequently require behavioral compliance as a condition of tenancy. Residents are expected to mask, to perform neurotypicality, and to accept institutional rules that were not designed with their neurology in mind.

Rural communities face an additional layer of invisibility. There are no disability-specific housing developments in Wahkiakum County. There are no adult diagnostic services and there were no peer support networks prior to our founder Isha Snow starting one. There are few services of any kind. Neurodivergent adults who grow up in rural Washington and Oregon either leave, losing their community, their land, their family connections, or they remain, often in unsafe or unstable housing, without support. NeuroHomes exists to change that.

Our Model

The NeuroHomes model centers three non-negotiable commitments: affordability, autonomy, and community.

Affordability means flat-rate rent of approximately $300 per month, roughly 30% of SSI income, with no hidden fees, no program costs, and no requirement to participate in services as a condition of housing. Housing is housing. Support is support. We do not conflate the two.

Autonomy means residents govern their own community. NeuroHomes is autistic-led at every level: in our board structure, our design process, our policy decisions, and our day-to-day operations. Residents are not clients. They are not patients. They are members of a community they helped build and continue to shape. There are no behavioral compliance requirements. Residents do not need to demonstrate progress, meet therapeutic goals, or perform recovery to keep their homes.

Community means that housing is embedded in a network of peer support, shared space, and voluntary services. Phase 1 of the Wahkiakum Campus will co-locate 15 park model residential units with the NeuroBloom Center, a neurodivergent-affirming clinical and peer support facility founded by Calial McCarty, LMHC, BCAS. Residents will have access to mental health services, skills support, social connection, and community programming, all voluntary, all designed by and for neurodivergent people.

The Project

Phase 1A of the Wahkiakum Campus Redevelopment is a 15-unit park model development in Wahkiakum County, WA. The project has been selected for 2026 Technical Assistance and Preconstruction funding by the Washington State Department of Commerce Manufactured Housing Unit program, a meaningful milestone that positions NeuroHomes for state and federal capital funding in 2027.

The total capital stack for Phase 1A is approximately $4.8 million, targeting a Q4 2027 fundraising close. Funding sources include state housing trust funds, CDFI lending, philanthropic grants, and individual donors. The Mightycause campaign supports predevelopment costs: architectural and engineering work, environmental review, legal and organizational infrastructure, community outreach, and the capacity-building work that makes a project like this possible before a single unit is built.

A parallel track in Clatsop County, OR, anchored in Astoria, is in early development, with civic relationships underway with county planning and city leadership.

The Theory Behind the Work

NeuroHomes is not just a housing developer. It is the institutional expression of Autistic Standpoint Theory, a sociological framework developed by Isha Snow that locates autism not as individual pathology but as a structural phenomenon produced at the intersection of genetic variation, epigenetic stress, and the normalizing apparatus of capitalist modernity.

From this framework, the housing crisis facing neurodivergent adults is not a gap in services. It is a predictable outcome of systems designed to reward neurotypical performance and exclude those who cannot or will not conform. The solution is not better services delivered within the same structure. It is different structures, built by and for the people they are meant to serve.

NeuroHomes is that structure. Your donation is an investment in a model that does not yet exist at scale and needs to.

For investment inquiries, partnership opportunities, or more information about the project, contact us at info@neurohomes.org or visit NeuroHomes.org