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68%

Increase in King County’s homeless population in the last 10 years.

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Political leaders cannot say how much money has been spent on the homeless issue in King County.

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WA state has the 3rd largest homeless population in the country. And THE largest chronically homeless population.

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In recent years, radical policies have taken hold in many corners of Washington that prioritizes criminals over families and treat spending taxpayer dollars as the goal, not a tactic. We advocate for programs that focus on truly helping those among us most in need and focus on accountabilty for actual results.

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Key Issues

Housing First

An ineffective, costly failure that ignores the root causes of homelessness in most cases, which are mental illness and addiction.

Sound Transit

Plagued by cronyism, cost overruns, delays, and lacks any semblance of public accountability.

Harm Reduction

Failed drug policy that keeps users addicted and permanetly dependent on government services.

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Washington residents strongly support more focus on treatment for homeless

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Washington residents strongly support more focus on treatment for homeless

A new poll finds that Washington State residents overwhelmingly support the Trump Administration’s efforts to encourage treatment-based solutions (for both drug/alcohol addiction and mental illness) to battle the homelessness crises. Moreover, a large majority of Washington voters believe that current homelessness programs that DO NOT address addiction and mental health issues should be closed down....

Billions Wasted, Zero Consequences: No One Fired, Demoted, or Punished

Billions Wasted, Zero Consequences: No One Fired, Demoted, or Punished

Major stories about government fraud and waste make headlines for only a day or two before vanishing. Because the media quickly drops these stories, the people responsible avoid accountability and keep profiting from the wasteful and fraudulent system. Politicians make promises to fix the problem, but rarely is anything meaningful done as the waste and...

The Dow Constantine Legacy

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The Dow Constantine Legacy

It has been nearly six months since then King County Executive Dow Constantine was handed $6 million by his cronies on the Sound Transit Board of Directors to lead its financially troubled organization.  Yet his desire to recklessly and carelessly spend taxpayers’ money (while constantly demanding more) at the county still lives on. Remember at...

Local governments lead the way to solve the homelessness crisis

Local governments lead the way to solve the homelessness crisis

Local communities, frustrated by the failed progressive homeless policies of their urban neighbors, are taking proactive steps to safeguard their public places, while encouraging those suffering in encampments to accept much-needed mental health and addiction treatment. The City of Camas became the latest Washington State community to enact a camping ban when its city council...

The real reason for Seattle’s crime drop? Undoing dangerous policy

The real reason for Seattle’s crime drop? Undoing dangerous policy

Over the years, ChangeWA has occasionally sided with the long-time Times columnist, Danny Westneat, especially when extremists like Kshama Sawant, Lisa Herbold, and Pete Holmes controlled Seattle City Hall. But on his recent column explaining why Seattle crime rates have dropped, Westneat appeared to have forgotten several important occurrences which have had far more impact...

Former Democrats explain why we need new homelessness policies

Former Democrats explain why we need new homelessness policies

Since the Obama Administration adopted the Housing First model in 2014, homelessness has increased: The Trump Administration’s July 24 Executive Order (EO) has shaken up how our country will confront its homelessness crisis, especially in how we attempt to help the overwhelming majority of destitute individuals suffering with mental illness and drug addiction. Essentially the...

Fresh Federal Direction Could Turn the Tide on Homelessness in Washington

Fresh Federal Direction Could Turn the Tide on Homelessness in Washington

Last week’s executive order from the Trump Administration firmly declared that the federal government is changing its homeless strategy after more than a decade of disappointing results from Housing First policies. These orders have brought encouragement to those who support more resources for addiction and mental health treatment and angered those who financially benefit from...

Breaking: Trump orders roll back of disastrous Housing First strategy on homelessness

Breaking: Trump orders roll back of disastrous Housing First strategy on homelessness

Today, the Trump Administration began to dismantle the ineffective and costly Housing First homelessness policies, which have caused the country’s homeless problem to become even worse. The Obama-era policy resulted in a record-breaking 770,000 people to suffer on our streets during the last year of the Biden Administration. In Washington state, homelessness rose 78% since...

“Safer Supply” policy is another failed harm reduction drug strategy

“Safer Supply” policy is another failed harm reduction drug strategy

A recent state drug proposal could further enable struggling addicts to keep using illegal substances while providing financial benefits to drug companies, bureaucrats, and disingenuous treatment centers, according to treatment advocate Ginny Burton in an op-ed for Center Square. She raises concerns over the effectiveness of the “Safer Supply” drug policy being discussed by Washington...

Homeless strategy is increasing the number who suffer in Washington

Homeless strategy is increasing the number who suffer in Washington

This is the third article of three on the various costs associated with homelessness. In this article we examine the costs associated with government-funded services and the lack of accountability of taxpayer funds. We also look at whether these services are attracting homeless individuals from other states. King County politicians boast that they work with...

Breaking the Cycle: Why Self-Sufficiency Must Replace Perpetual Care

Breaking the Cycle: Why Self-Sufficiency Must Replace Perpetual Care

This article is the second in ChangeWA’s three-part series on the increasing costs of our region’s homeless strategy. We asked treatment advocate and founder of the O-UT Program Ginny Burton to examine the long-term costs associated with current policies addressing homelessness. ChangeWA supports a treatment-based approach to homelessness. Data shows that the expensive “Housing First” method has...

Washington: The destination state for America’s homeless population

Washington: The destination state for America’s homeless population

This is the first in a three-part series, “The Cost of Homelessness.” Failed “Housing First” homeless policies have resulted in more people suffering on our streets. In turn, this puts more stress on local taxpayers to fund the public services the growing homeless population requires. We will examine these startling costs and explore if focusing...

Your tax dollars are promoting fentanyl use as a “friend-building” activity

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Your tax dollars are promoting fentanyl use as a “friend-building” activity

Is a new big budget ad campaign from the State of Washington the latest proof that our government is not interested in reducing lethal drug use? [un]Divided podcast host Brandi Kruse asserts that a recently released television ad from the Washington State Department of Health is more evidence that “our government does not want to...

Your tax dollars are promoting fentanyl use as a “friend-building” activity

Your tax dollars are promoting fentanyl use as a “friend-building” activity

Is a new big budget ad campaign from the State of Washington the latest proof that our government is not interested in reducing lethal drug use? [un]Divided podcast host Brandi Kruse asserts that a recently released television ad from the Washington State Department of Health is more evidence that “our government does not want to...

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