Seattle to add more than 2,000 housing units for homeless by end of 2023
The Seattle City Council’s Budget Committee heard presentations Thursday on the outlook for the city’s response to the homeless crisis, which continues to be an issue despite being declared an emergency more than five years ago.
One presentation, delivered by the budget committee analysts, focused on how the city’s housing capacity for those experiencing homelessness and how it is already projected to improve over the next two years.
According to those projections, the city will add a total of 2,023 housing units for homeless residents by the end of 2023. This is an increase of nearly 50% compared to the end of 2019.
The number includes units being created through King County’s Health Through Housing initiative, which takes hotels closed by the COVID-19 pandemic and turns them into supportive housing. The program looks to add about 1,155 units by the end of 2022 across the entire county. In Seattle, the initiative will create a little over 400 units.
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