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Addressing Homelessness

Status report of the Mayor’s interim action plan to address homelessness and create new and safe alternatives.

4/12/17 CITY OF SEATTLE – OFFICE OF MAYOR EDWARD B. MURRAY 1

Summary

Navigation Team has had 291 contacts with persons living homeless

• Provided 116 referrals to other living arrangements

Inter-agency and inter-jurisdictional effort to make safer alternatives for unsheltered people to live

• 67 people living in 3 additional encampments
• Daily, real-time shelter and encampment space vacancies to outreach workers

Multi-agency task force providing trash and debris

• More than 1600 tons of trash and debris removed

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Homelessness Activation Overview 3

Mission 1: Make an additional 200+ safer living spaces available Mission 2: Reduce Trash Mission 3: Connect people with services and mitigate most hazardous encampments Mission 4: Implement Revised MDARs Mission 5: Incubate Housing Resource Center (HRC) to increase access to housing Mission 6: Engage the public and mobilize community response Mission 7: Maintain Situational Awareness Mission 8: Employee training and communication Mission 9: Communications

Addressing Homelessness

Creating Safe Alternatives

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• Compass Housing was awarded $1.3m for a new 100-bed,

24/7 shelter in the First Hill Neighborhood.

• New shelter will serve a co-ed population, including

couples.

• First Presbyterian Church (1013 8th Ave.)
• Outreach plan -- includes neighborhood notification and

a community meeting on May 22 at 6:30 pm at the church

• Project should open in June/July 2017

New Managed Encampments

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• Georgetown (1000 S. Myrtle Street) –March 15

Total Capacity: 70 people Residents Now: 33

• Licton Springs Village (8620 Nesbit Ave N) –April 5th

Total Capacity: 70 Residents Now: 20

• Meyers Way (9701 Myers Way S.) – March 15

Total capacity: 70 people Residents Now: 33

Navigation Center

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• HSD selected DESC and Operation Sack Lunch as operators
• Developing Navigation Center programming, budgets, referral protocols, and housing
• ptions.
• Construction Updates to facility underway
• While renovation occurs, DESC will offer services to people in nearby encampments at

their 3rd Ave. day center location known as Connections.

• The City will host a second neighborhood and community information sessions about

the center on Monday April 24th at 5pm.

Improved Outreach – Navigation Team

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The Navigation Team = REACH and Specially-trained SPD Officers Since 649 total Outreach Contacts 291 Unduplicated Contacts

Improved Outreach – Navigation Team

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116 of the 291 individuals exited encampments to an alternate living arrangement (40%) 43 of the 116 were referred to the new authorized encampments (37%) 181 of the 291 individuals accepted services of some sort (62%) 101 of the 291 individuals declined services (35%) 10 of the 291 Individuals remain ambivalent about engaging with services (3%)

More Compassionate, Transparent Protocols

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Departmental Rulemaking Process for Improving Encampment Removal Protocols

• New rules went into effect April 3rd

Changes from the public comment draft include:

• Explicitly stating that identification and documents are a

part of personal belongings which will be stored by the City

• Refined definitions of hazards and obstructions
• Adding requirements to provide oral notice of an

encampment removal, where possible

• Increasing the period for storing belongings to 70 days

4/7/17 -- Navigation Team made its first delivery

• f stored belongings

Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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• Stadium Area 4th Ave S Corridor – Encampments removal and area cleaned

Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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Working closely with multi-agency task force providing resources, including: SPU, Parks, SDOT, WSDOT, City Light, DON, SDHR, and Public Health Goal to reduce and mitigate the impacts of trash produced by encampments Coordinate closely with Navigation Team to assist in encampment removal, and site cleaning, remediation, and restoration.

Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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• Spokane St West Seattle Bridge Corridor – Encampment trash cleaned up only

Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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Location Service/Vendor/Updated Count Under I-90 and Rainier Overpass Bellfor provides twice weekly bag and bulky item pick-up. 15th and Leary at 4814 15th Ave NW Waste Management provides twice weekly dumpster service. Ballard Locks at NW 54th St Waste Management provides weekly dumpster service. Myers Way Area (3/4 mile at 9000 - 9900) Cascadia provides weekly bag and bulky item pick-up. Additionally, the sanctioned camp on Myers Way receives Waste Management dumpster service managed by FAS & HSD. Diagonal Ave S and Airport Way S Waste Management initiating twice weekly dumpster service.

Unsanctioned Encampment Locations with Scheduled Pick-up

Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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Location Service Provided Myers Way (9000-9900 Myers Way) Weekly pick-ups by litter crews. Ballard Locks at NW 54th St Regular on-site visits to clean-up litter scatter around dumpster. Poplar and Dean St Picked up bagged trash resulting from community clean- up two weeks in row. I-90 Off-ramp Loop at Rainier Ave Regularly pick-up bagged trash resulting from community organized clean-ups.

Recent On-call Pick-ups at Unsanctioned Encampment Locations

Improved Trash & Debris Pick-up

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Sharps Collection Pilot

• To date, SPU has collected 5617

sharps from 8 drop-of locations

Community Center Shower Facilities

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Seattle Parks and Recreation are providing showers at community centers and

• ffering Swimming Pool shower facilities for families.

As of January, Swimming Pool shower facilities have served unsheltered families: As of January, the Community Center Showers have served: January – March, 2017

Pools with showers

• pen to SPS students

and immediate family Homeless Swim Pass SPS Showers Total

Ballard 97 11 108 Evans 17 17 Madison 6 6 Meadowbrook 33 21 54 Medgar Evers 54 54 Queen Anne Rainier Beach 92 92 Southwest 2 2 Total 171 8 178

January 1, 2017 – March 24, 2017 Community Centers with showers open to all: # Unsheltered Served: Delridge 751 Miller 125 Rainier 98 Green Lake (estimate only, have no way

• f counting)

2800-3000

Implementation Advisory Committee

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Purpose of Committee

• Review and provide feedback on the implementation of the new protocols for

encampment removal.

• Ensure that the new protocols are being implemented and carried out consistently.
• Proactively message and help to shape the public narrative around the encampment

removal and cleanup effort.

Membership appointed by Mayor & City Council

• Homeless Advocates

Public Health / Behavioral Health

• Ex-government / Organization Expertise

Business

• Public Safety

Legal / Civil Rights

• Faith Communities

Neighborhoods

First Meeting

• (Tentatively) Monday, April 24