Forum on Housing Solutions

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Hear what the City of Seattle is doing to get people off the streets and into safe emergency housing that leads to permanent housing.

Sharon Lee, is the founding Executive Director of Seattle’s Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) that develops and operates housing for low-income and homeless people and provides supportive service programs to assist tenants in maintaining stable housing. Lee, an advocate on issues of housing justice, housing preservation, and homelessness, will describe how LIHI took the innovative step in September, 2013, to host and operate a homeless encampment of tiny houses on their vacant property. Building on their success, LIHI now manages several Seattle sites in partnership with Nickelsville, SHARE/Wheel, the City of Seattle, and Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd.

Ms Lee will be offering an overview of how these tiny house encampments began, how they are operated and what they have learned.

Following her presentation, there will be a round-table conversation about how San Diego can implement similar programs in our city and county, and what steps need to be taken to do it.

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