Does Seattle's budget move signal a big change on regional homelessness response?
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- The city of Seattle is taking back money from the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, raising national questions about the future of the city’s support for the agency given the mayor’s public frustration over how it's working.
On Thursday, elected leaders were careful not to comment on the letter that started leaking out the day before.
As KOMO previously reported, Seattle has spent more than a $1 billion on homelessness, only as the number of unsheltered people grew.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, in multiple interviews since the start of this year, said he was taking a hard look at the funding of the organization and what it was doing with the money.
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After spending a billion dollars the problem is 10x worse. That's the end results of continually doubling down on a ineffective solution of enabling the homeless while ignoring personal accountability.
Some people got rich off of this. Follow the money. Typical mindset, if it doesn't work then throw more money at it. the kickbacks as well must have been awesome.
Inslee just asked for more money too, lol
It made Dones and a few others wealthy enough to retire. On tax paid dollars.
And jay insley wants more money
If the KCRHA is incapable of providing evidence-based results from the $1b that Seattle taxpayers have provided over the course of a decade, they shouldn’t get any more money. A decade is long enough to show some results. And if you didn’t achieve the results you were hoping for, at least provide some basic accountability on how the money was spent.
Stop funding the homeless peoples lifestyles first,
Are you talking about what you just wrote? Doesn’t make any sense.
Disabilities are not lifestyles. And not all are disabled but to those who are, you're just calling people trash.
@@shelley_northwest do you live in Seattle? It's not a bunch of disabled homeless people here. There are thousands of homeless doing drugs and nodding off in the middle of the street here daily. They choose to be homeless because it's how they're able to do drugs and live how they want to. There are SOME disabled homeless people here, and some of those do not do drugs, but a large majority of the problem is the fentanyl users. It is trashy, hence why people feel the way they do. If you don't live in Seattle and have not seen the problem, please don't speak on it. You just don't know.
@@adamk.7177 They don't always choose - that's your hateful religious indoctrination allowing you to feel special by comparison. Many are disabled with nervous system problems. Using drugs to manage freight & fears. I mean look at the way MAGA etc murders Pali's because they are seen as junk and whatnot. And yes I live here in Seattle. However I can access deeper than your religion & partisan politics.
@@adamk.7177 And yes, the other partisan side - the liberal woke politicians are exploiting misery for their own crooked pockets. Neither group gives a flying shit about human life.
Seattle spent over a billion dollars on homeless, and it is getting worse. Maybe trying a different approach would help. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result is just stupid.
There's a lot of money to be made in this industry. NGO's funneling through "non-profits" and "charities" all linked to one another. Administrative staff in these orgs making 6-figure salaries tells us what we need to know.
It’s important to remember that this has NOTHING to do with ‘homeless’. These people are drug addicts. They want nothing but to be as close to their drug supply as possible, and they want nothing but as much free money to spend on their drug habit.
competing with LA Prop HHH
Giant grift.
Wonder if the schools could have used that billion to help educate the students.
schools dont educate
they indoctrinate
WAKE UP
Remember when they said the lottery and over 50% in property taxes would cover that?
schools dont educate
they indoctrinate
Agree that the more taxpayers' money is used for the homeless, the worse the crisis gets. We need new leadership at the top as they have failed us all.
Time to stop throwing away money on failed organizations
O but but the mayor said everything is fine and dandy 😅
If we'd put money into taking care of our own people this wouldn't be a problem. It's time we shut our borders and clean up the mess that the US has become.
There are 300,000 illegals in Washington state, the competition
They could budget more for terd cleanup crews?🤭🥴🤡🧐😱🤔
It’s a drug problem not a homeless problem . Grow up .
Yea, but Plymouth Housing wants to house them without any conditions for rehab. What could possibly go wrong?🤪😜
Thank goodness for Sara Nelson. Our next Mayor. Kick A$$ Sara!
Notice the large NEW tents, huge tarps canopies and awnings supplied by those making six figures.
Lets heat how many dollar's they are spending on salaries out of that Billion dollar's. Then lets see how many permanent emergency housing units they have, not rented rooms but permanent housing units. Then adjust the balance between these 2. We already know what happened to the money.
clowns
More to come as prices go up in everything, keep voting for those demoocrats, they love you.
Corporations and private "not-for-profits" will never fix society's major issues such as homelessness and mental/physical health. It is the responsibility of government to find ways to house it's people and to care for it's most needy when the so called "free market" fails. But America, being disproportionately led by conservatives, is failing miserably. So, enjoy the view. Your "conservative" vote put them there.
The Blumigrants are coming! The Blumigrants are coming!!
So fun
Washington democrats haha
PERGOLAS could help!
We could at least keep people out of the rain and snow with these attractive features, since we're not going to house people in the many empty buildings.
We could designate parts of Lightrail Stations for sleeping for the unhoused too.
4 more years 🎉🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🇸🇩🏳️🌈💙💙