Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson led a Shelter Accelerator Update meeting at Bertha Landes room at City Hall April 8 to brief people on her administration's effort to build 1000 new homes for the unhoused.
Photo by Liz Steen
By Liz Steen
There were no next steps, website updates, or zoom link available for the city’s shelter briefing as of Wednesday night.
Residents packed the in-person-only briefing Wednesday night, April 8, at City Hall with Mayor Katie Wilson.
Attendees were given a link to comment, Seattle.gov/mayor, and encouraged to join future community meetings. Planners have high hopes for the coordinated effort, which includes a 72-space RV park scheduled to open June 1, 2026 at 7201 2nd Ave SW, near W Marginal Way SW in West Seattle.
This and other projects are part of the city’s push for 1000 new units to shelter unhoused residents.
The projects bring together city planners, services, and infrastructure intended to provide a holistic response. “It’s a really heartwarming thing to see service providers, neighbors, the formerly homeless, businesses, the whole city coming together to address this crisis,” Wilson said.
To move the projects faster, she said funding for the project was found through city “budget management,” in addition to the designated homeless services funds already funneled through King County.
“We’re actually doing this (funding) in-house,” Wilson said. “We’re not doing this through the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.”
The county funds were already allocated, the agencies had already set up their budgets, and the process around those funds takes more time, she said. The city will have more information available in city meetings that will be planned as leases are signed, she said.
For right now, the RV safe lot on state land is moving ahead as scheduled. The project is listed on the Low Income Housing Institute website here https://www.lihihousing.org/post/tiny-houses-sheltered-1-663-adults-and-children-in-2025 .
Employees of the mayors office were unable to confirm the info on the website, and did not have a link to find more info.
The meeting closed with a word from Ericka a representative from Purpose Dignity Action. “Let’s resist the urge to just go rant on social media because I can pretty much guarantee that will not solve any problems, right?”
