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
Camp Second Chance, at 9701 Myers Way S., remains West Seattle’s only city-sanctioned tiny-house encampment, though the city wants to add more around Seattle. CSC’s
Community Advisory Committee meets every month for updates and community Q&A; here’s what happened at its February meeting, which happened online this past Sunday afternoon:
CAMP UPDATE: CSC’s site coordinator
Eric Pattin said 54 people are there now, 15 women and 39 men. One person moved into affordable housing; two others left.
Four emergency calls were made over the past month. Asked to elaborate, Pattin replied, “Mainly medical, one domestic violence.” The latter resulted in one of the departures he had mentioned.