Over the past several months, we have been speaking out against King County’s support of a homelessness plan that was too expensive, misguided, and doomed to fail. We have worked to inform citizens that the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, which had asked for $11.8 billion to put their...
Progress and missed opportunity in Seattle – it’s time to get the job done
Seattle’s safety in the hands of City Council, make your voice heard today
When it comes to public drug use, many want to emphasize compassion over criminalization. It’s important to remember that neglect isn’t compassion – intervention is. The extent of that intervention has been a contentious issue in Washington, leading to a special session in May which made hard drug posession a...
Seattle Times has a good question: What’s the point of the Regional Homlessness Authority?
The Seattle Times has a good question – what’s the point of the Regional Homlessness Authority? Columnist Danny Westneat asked “Should we keep this agency at all?” Given their track record of spending millions up on millions of taxpayer dollars with no results, we’ve been wondering the same thing. Especially...
Drugs and homelessness are a losing combination for Seattle
With late payments and unsigned contracts to non-profit social service organizations piling up, The King County Regional Homelessness Authority is making it even harder for local organizations to serve the populations they were created to help. An article in The Seattle Times says these organizations are being forced to...
