City clears homeless encampment near Seattle middle school
A homeless encampment at Miller Park near Meany Middle School. (Photo: Jason Rantz)
Seattle city officials have completely cleared a homeless encampment previously located at Miller Playfield near Capitol Hill’s Meany Middle School.
A notice was posted on Wednesday ordering anyone camped out in the area to “remove all personal property” by 9 a.m. on Friday. Then on Thursday, the mayor’s office released an update saying that 30 people who had been camped out in Miller Park had been successfully referred to shelter.
On Friday morning, city staff and contracted outreach workers arrived at the park, and contacted with eight additional people on-site. Of those, five had previously been living in the encampment, while three were said to have “arrived more recently.”
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Co-founder and site coordinator
Eric Pattin announced he will be leaving that role at West Seattle’s only tiny-house encampment later this month to work in a new capacity with camp operator
LIHI, as it opens the
Executive Hotel Pacific enhanced shelter, which has 150 rooms, and will have intensive case management and be focused on rapid rehousing.
LIHI’s
Andrew Constantino and
Josh Castle discussed other staff matters. They’re also hiring a new case manager and hopr that will happen this week. The camp also will have an evening security person and a weekend “keyholder” who will handle emergency situations. The new site coordinator will work Monday-Friday, a change from the past live-in/always-there mode in which that position – held until now by camp co-founders – operated. Constantino, who himself had a background as an on-site staff person and former resident at another tiny-house village, was adamant that it’s a better way to operate, both for the perso