Kim Kondrat, homeless response coordinator, 360.742.6448 kkondrat@ci.olympia.wa.us. Hello Kim, As the city's homeless response coordinator I urge you to establish suitable alternative housing for the people the city plans to kick out on Dec. 8th. I have two suggestions I urge the city to incorporate to this end. The first is to happen immediately, open up the currently very unused gym and and showers at the Olympia Community center as emergency humane alternative accomodations. Especially in light of fact said eviction is happening right at the start of the harshest time of year to be living without warm secure respite from the weather. The city can hire people to provide 24 hour management of the center and the police department can make regular unscheduled patrols at center and as a place for them to take their work or bathroom breaks as a way to keep Nar do Wells from coming around. The second suggestion is for the city to lease or buy a couple of the many empty strip mall stores in commercial neighborhoods and not prone to NIMBY backlash, served by public transit. Build inside them individual micro apartments with common kitchen and social spaces. This is a quicker to deploy (by just internal remodeling verse building entirely from ground up) and longer term solution or step back to living in a regular stable housing situation.
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