Delridge Supportive Housing Advisory Committee

Last year DESC moved 533 homeless men and women off the streets and into supportive housing and served 7,145 of our community's most vulnerable persons, particularly those disabled by serious mental and/or addictive illnesses.

DELRIDGE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Background
DESC embarked on community outreach in mid-June 2011 followed by a handful of participation in neighborhood events and small informational meetings aimed at engaging and educating the community about DESC's plan to develop an affordable housing project in the north Delridge neighborhood, located at 5434-5444 Delrige Avenue SW. The Delridge Supportive Housing will create 66 units of affordable housing with supportive services for homeless men and women living with serious mental/addictive illnesses or other disabling conditions. In its effort to improve the community engagement process and as a condition of its City and King County funding, DESC expressed its desire for the creation of an advisory committee. DESC, in partnership with Delridge neighborhood stakeholders, work on the formation of such committee in December. The Delridge Supportive Housing Advisory Committee is comprised of project stakeholder representatives, including North Delridge Neighborhood Council's appointed community representatives known collectively as the Delridge Alliance, DESC representatives, and other stakeholder representatives. The Delridge Alliance has done great work in identifying and recruiting neighborhood stakeholders as members of the committee.

The following have been identified as members of the Delridge Supportive Housing Advisory Committee:

Co-Chairs:

Pete Spalding, Delridge Alliance neighborhood leadership rep,long-time community advocate
Bill Hobson, DESC Executive Director

Members:

Vonetta Mangaoang, Delridge Alliance neighborhood leadership rep, NDNC Executive Council
Jane Appling, Delridge Alliance neighborhood institution rep, Seattle Public Library
Steve Daschle, Delridge Alliance social service rep, Southwest Youth and Family Services
Phillippia Goldsmith, Delridge Alliance neighborhood design and development rep, Delridge Neighborhood Development Association
Angela Goodman, Delridge Alliance adjacent property owner rep
Brenda Sewell, Delridge Alliance local business rep, Creative Children's Corner
Nicole Macri, DESC
2 seats (TBA), consumers of mental health services or similar supportive housing

In addition to the above committeee positions, the Advisory Committee anticipates that representatives from the City of Seattle and King County will regularly attend meetings in order to be a resource to members when questions arise relevant to funding or policy guiding the development and operations of the site.

Questions from neighbors may be addressed to any member of the Committee. To contact DESC directly, please email nmacri@desc.org. For more information about the Delridge Alliance, please see http://www.ndnc.org/category/hottopics/da/. To contact members of the Delridge Alliance, please email alliance@ndnc.org.

Advisory Committee Meetings
The Delridge Supportive Housing Advisory Committee meets at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center's South Classroom from 6:30PM-8:30PM unless otherwise stated. The following meeting dates had been identified:

March 6, 2012, Tuesday, 6:00PM-8:00PM
March 27, 2012, Tuesday
April 12, 2012, Thursday
May 7, 2012, Monday, meeting will be held at the Movement Studio
June 12, 2012, Tuesday

The committee is also scheduled to visit a couple of DESC's housing projects on June 4, 2012 in its effort to learn more and have better understanding of the housing first model and program operations.

On February 21, 2012, the Advisory Committee hosted a public hearing at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, to give the Delridge community an opportunity to provide input on DESC's Supportive Housing development. Testimonies given at the public hearing in addition to previously provided neighbor input, will be the basis for the beginning discussions of the Delridge Supportive Housing Advisory Committee. The news release about the February 21st public hearing is available here

Meeting Materials
The following materials provide the community and the public with information about the progress of the Advisory Committee:

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