Andrey Maslov and Sarah Andrews of the TSC team have been leading a project with the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) to conduct a survey with SHA’s employee base. SHA provides long-term, low income rental housing and rental assistance to approximately 35,000 people, representing more than 17,000 households, in the city of Seattle. Its employees include everyone from executive leadership to those in the field who work to maintain housing units.
Andrey and Sarah developed the survey alongside SHA Human Resources staff. It was fielded via an online survey and hard copy questionnaires delivered to employees without SHA email addresses. TSC staff performed data collection and are now in the analysis and reporting stage. Two initial presentations with the SHA cabinet have been conducted—one to review the overall results of the survey, and one to dive deeper into the cross tabulations, or breakout reports, that show the differences between age groups, race and ethnicity, union and non-union workers, employment duration and more. Next, TSC will present the findings to the Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) committee at SHA in September.
Andrey and Tera Oglesby, SHA Employee Career Development and RSJI manager, review breakout data reports and plan for the RSJI meeting in September.