Monday: Your chance to find out more about Delridge DESC project

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Tomorrow (Monday) night, Downtown Emergency Service Center reps come to Delridge to answer questions about DESC’s proposal for a 75-apartment project housing homeless people dealing with mental illness/substance abuse challenges. (The site, at right, is in the 5400 block of Delridge – note the real-estate shingles; DESC says it’s “under contract.”) The day after North Delridge Neighborhood Council chair Karrie Kohlhaas brought up the proposal at the last NDNC meeting, we spoke with DESC’s executive director for a detailed followup (read it here if you missed it).

DESC has long since expanded outside the “downtown” in its name and runs projects around the city with about 1,000 “supportive-housing” units – 1811 Eastlake, Canaday House, Evans House, Kerner-Scott House, Lyon Building, Rainier House, The Morrison, and The Union Hotel, with Aurora Supportive Housing in its pipeline ahead of the proposed Delridge project. Tomorrow night’s meeting is at Delridge Library (less than a block southwest of the project site) at Delridge/Brandon, 6-7:30 pm (here’s the DESC-circulated letter/flyer).

August June 27, 2011 (7:19 pm)

Another prison-like, mandatory 12-Step religious cult insane asylum….

95% of the people they will pack into this facility would be regular normal people in regular housing, but then the POVERTY PIMPS would not be able to tap into all the FREE TAXPAYER CASH that comes with the CRAZY & ADDICTED LABELS!

Jules June 29, 2011 (12:43 pm)

It’s not a cut and dry situation. Some homeless DO take advantage of the system, but most of them are so far gone they don’t know what’s happening half the time. DESC is NOT a religious organization, Union Gospel Mission is. Also, just because you might get worried about crazies and druggies near your home, the fact is that they are everywhere. It doesn’t matter what town or city you live in. Many mentally ill homeless patients cannot perform activities of daily living, more or less try to find a job, or housing. Housing is vital to their receovery. If they are out on the streets, they are far more likely to relapse into drug abuse and behaviour that harms themselves and others. The system to help the mentally ill and homeless is already broken. DESC is one of the last thriving resources to help a very, very under served population. You know there is a psych hospital in West Seattle, Navos. The people whom could benefit from this housing greatly. The “not in my town” mentality is pointless.

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