SEATTLE — Seattle community leaders celebrated the grand opening of Bertha Pitts Campbell Place, a new permanent supportive housing facility, on Tuesday.
Plymouth Housing developed the building, located at 12th Avenue and Spruce Street, which has 100 studio apartments for single adults exiting long-term homelessness.
“We’ve seen time and time again, when we are able to get people into homes, we can then work with them to address the other things that will allow them to thrive,” said Maiko Winkler-Chin, director of the Seattle Office of Housing, at the event.
The building is named for local civil rights activist Bertha Pitts Campbell, who was an inaugural board member of the Seattle Urban League and the first woman of African descent to serve on a YWCA board in the United States.
The Third Door Coalition, an alliance of service providers and small business owners in King County, estimates that 6,500 units of Permanent Supportive Housing will be needed over the next five years to deal with the county’s homelessness crisis.
King County Executive Dow Constantine says there are 1000 units of supportive housing that have been created in just the past year.
“Adding 100 units of housing is a major contribution, major investment,” said Constantine. “King County is proud to be participating in this project, helping bring those units on line and getting more and more people into a home.”
Plymouth Housing said that the $60 million raised during their PROOF Capital Campaign, which was a public fundraiser, helped efforts to build up the housing stock in and around Seattle.
Those funds helped to create designs for six buildings. Three buildings, including Bertha Pitts Campbell Place, have been completed, and three others are currently under construction.
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