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Keylee Marineau, Thurston County Homeless Prevention and Affordable Housing Coordinator currently serves as Chair of the team and Derek Harris, CEO of Community Youth Services acts as Coordinating Council Representative.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>HAT is comprised of sub-committee action teams <strong>Homeless Housing Hub<\/strong> overseen by Derek Harris, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/communityyouthservices.org\/\">Community Youth Services<\/a>, <strong>Rental Housing Work Group<\/strong> with lead Elisa Sparkman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.co.thurston.wa.us\/health\/\">Thurston County Public Health &amp; Social Services<\/a>, and <strong>Affordable Housing Work Group<\/strong> headed by Craig Chance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatc.org\/\">Housing Authority of Thurston County<\/a>. \u201cSince the economic recession of 2008-2009, we\u2019ve been producing 600-625 less housing units a year than we need to accommodate population growth,\u201d says Chance. \u201cWe need to build a strategic plan to address these issues; Lacey is beginning to address this with their ADU Program (ADUs are a second, small dwelling on the same property as a standard single-family home) and we need to be working together with both private and public sectors to come up with innovation solutions.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>In 2019, HAT accomplished the following: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased jurisdictional participation: standing monthly updates from Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater and County on all activities related to housing &amp; homelessness<\/li>\n<li>Approved the new Homeless Crisis Response Plan<\/li>\n<li>Provided funding priorities for the CIP-RFP 2019<\/li>\n<li>Developed a Data Workgroup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>2020 Priorities include supporting the action teams by<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community education on housing and homeless issues<\/li>\n<li>Advocacy to local jurisdictions and state government<\/li>\n<li>Community messaging and education<\/li>\n<li>Collective priority setting and participation in the 5-year homeless plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thurston Thrives has appointed a Housing Action Team (HAT) with the mission to support neighborhood &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thurstonthrives.org\/hat-action-team-joins-forces-to-address-homelessness-in-thurston-county\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HAT Action Team Joins Forces to Address Homelessness in Thurston County - Thurston Thrives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thurstonthrives.org\/hat-action-team-joins-forces-to-address-homelessness-in-thurston-county\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HAT Action Team Joins Forces to Address Homelessness in Thurston County - Thurston Thrives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thurston Thrives has appointed a Housing Action Team (HAT) with the mission to support neighborhood ... 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