King County official calls for end of regional homeless authority: 'It's not working'
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- KING COUNTY, Wash. - King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn is calling for an end to the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) after a staggering rise in the number of homeless individuals under their watch.
The KCRHA said it now knows of 16,385 individuals experiencing homelessness, which is a 23% increase since 2022.
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It's not working for a very simple reason - It's not a homeless problem. It's a drug problem.
You will NEVER solve a problem until you can first identify what the problem actually is. In this case, it's drug addiction, NOT homelessness.
I'm not on drugs and very homeless. Been lookin for 2 years and can't find a place. It's crazy the shit these rentals are asking for. First of all my credit score has nothing to do with me paying rent since the rental people are asking me for credit since I'm the one paying for 2 months up front before they provide any services so their credit score should be checked, not mine, I'm paying up front giving the landlord credits. Second they want proof of income at least 3 times what rent is, that's crazy. Third they are asking $40 per application fee and make more money putting a place up for rent than actually renting it out. Fourth, there's always a better option for them than myself so that's who gets to rent it. Fifth, these rental places won't rent to you if you have any collections, that's crazy for reasons in point 1. It's all bad and there's no help for white Americans, but if you are illegal they give $3,500 right to when they apply for food stamps So that's why the non English speakers are driving brand new cars, tax payers are buying em. For the illegal aliens. It's just crazy.
Absolutely. There are always exceptions to a rule, but fentanyl and other opioids are the cause of most of the homelessness.
@@auntjenifer7774 everyone with a roof over their head had to qualify for a mortgage, or pass a credit check for rent. In other words, everyone lives where they can afford. Can't afford to live here, it's time to move on. El Paso has cheap housing.
@@dh2392 NO!. I refuse to conform to corrupt politicians like you.
@@tdestroyer4780 I'm not a politician, I'm just a realist living in the real world.
Another money laudering scheme is going down.
They are fighting over the Grift.🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is literally everyone that isn't "employed" by the authority. They have run their course and things are only getting worse. Besides the failure of accomplishing the organization's core goal they have also aided in assisting DESC to access budgets and funds meant for other things so they are actually failing in areas that they shouldn't even have an effect on. Youth violence diversion, drug diversion, mental health treatment are just a few that have their own budgets for a reason but DESC has recieved grants from all of them. And none of those services are showing any signs of improvement in the population. It has been a while and it is time to call it finished.
Took us 5yrs to get to this point.
The homeless industrial complex on the west coast is on the take.
In Canada we call them "Poverty Pimps", it's not within their goal to end their constituency's trauma. They large, large paychecks continue.
To many drifters are coming to freeattle, and they end up on the streets get addicted to drugs if most are not already addicted and they don't have anywhere to go but to set up encampments.
And once there they will get transported to Lynwood or Tukwila so that the city doesn't have to deal with them.
“Freeattle!”
😂🤣😂🤣😂
VERY creative!
When we did The Parade of Pigs for the Centennial Anniversary of Pike Place Market, I was honored to decorate 2 of the pigs.
One day, I was repairing Rockin’ Rachel in a little vacant business on Pike. When taking a break outside the door a scrawny, elderly lady approached me begging for cash. She claimed hunger. I explained that I didn’t have any paper money, but did have change.
I gave her two handfuls of change. She picked out the gray coins & threw all of the pennies onto the pavement!
That was when a well dressed black gentleman walked up, tis-king his tongue, & LECTURED me, explaining that she was only interested in drug money.
He said, “Next time, walk her over to the McDonald’s & buy her lunch. But NEVER hand them cash, or anything that they could quickly hock.”
I think the majority of them were homeless because they're addicts. I know me, and if I found myself homeless, I would do everything I could to get off of the streets, I wouldn't just give up, and start doing drugs, knowing that addiction would likely mean I never get off of the streets. This is the excuse apologists make, that they started doing drugs because they're homeless, but that's putting the cart before the horse. Drugs are the cause of their problems, not a result of.
@@WalkiTalki I don't think they're transporting them out of Seattle, that's where most of the encampments are. Now where I live in Bellevue, yeah, I think we might be transporting them to Seattle because they're never here very long, and we don't have encampments. And if we are transporting them to Seattle, I don't feel bad about it at all, as Seattle has tolerated the encampments, open drug use, shoplifting, and everything else that comes with these people.
Those same leaders were the ones who put in place a program they knew would not work but it would generate all kinds of income for the people leading the program, how fortunate for all those people who needed help. Try stopping the cartel and have cops arrest drug offenders and prosecutors imprison them, and then your homeless problem will decrease. Put the drug addicts in prison to clean up because these million-dollar programs are designed to fail the people.
Looks like another “Summer of Love “
So we are on trend with the rest of the country. Meaning this isn't working nation wide.Does Jeff Simms get paid K.C. Regional Homelessness Authority, or someone close to him?
I have never seen a homeless tent.
@@trentbrownstone1481 I see them everyday. In Seattle there are a lot of homeless tents and trailers in more commercial areas and near homeless services, medical food banks etc.
I live where I can afford to just like everyone else with a roof over their head. If the narrative of "unaffordable housing" is true, then it's time these people move to somewhere affordable for them. But we all know the truth, that it's an addiction problem, and I don't think their bad life choices should consume so much of our tax dollars enabling this lifestyle.
You have no clue where your tax dollars are going, I knew this for a fact because if you did know you would know that the biggest budget in you city is police and then the $200,000,000,000 going over seas the past year alone.
You have no clue where your tax dollars are going, I knew this for a fact because if you did know you would know that the biggest budget in you city is police and then the $200,000,000,000 going over seas the past year alone.
@@auntjenifer7774 so Seattle sent $200 billion overseas last year alone? Amazing that a city of 4 million has that kind of budget, LMAO
The grifting is monumental.
If it wasn't such a lucrative industry, it wouldn't thrive so.
Andrea Suarez is the lone individual who is making a positive difference in the lives of these people.
They are, or were regular people at some point in their lives, and she still sees it in them.
Too late.
Your documentary “Seattle is Dying” is EXCELLENT!
Didn’t it win an award?
UNFORTUNATELY some of my friends were SO depressed - about a third of the way through it - that they turned it off!!!
The end is the BEST.
Your solution is so simple & logical that I really believe it would WORK! Tough love. 👍
The politicians reaction was petty & juvenile. They want ALL credit for ANY solutions, can’t even take advice - childish.
In BC the "Human Rights Commission" was handing out a check to everyone filing ANY complaint: 5,000. The only way to handle it (it never made the news as the reason) was the SHUT DOWN the entire dept. and start over.
The Homeless number is called a count, but doesn't it include a lot of estimates? How accurate is that number. What is the margin of error?
About time that this is looked into it should be done in Minnesota
Bring back the Homestead Act,.........
Seldom these problem is one cause, it is always many causes, from drug use, to low wages, and to landlords and taxes rate abuses, etc.
Homeless is increasing in direct relation to hopelessness increasing. Biden has failed, Trump failed before that…we all need to send a message, unite and end the 2 part overlord system
Where's the tax money? They mentioned they used investors and the return on investment wasn't there. it is the entire system. How can you try to make money on everything?
"Where has all the money gone....gone to line pockets everywhere.....where have all the funds gone....gone to paychecks everywhere......the answer, my friend.. is blowin' in the wind..the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind". Remember this folk song from the late 1960's anyone?? Still my question: where has all the homeless funding money gone, my friend?
Easy, check their private funds, hedging investments, stocks, bonds, money market funds, mutual funds, those places require verification of payments!
Other ilegal stashing in off the books money laundering.
AUDIT THEM & TAKE THEM TO JAIL
Money grants but it’s the same or worse I should know been homeless for over 18 months
What about giving $50,000. to 1 scamming squatter in Bellevue ?
Build transitional housing with that money
They are obviously good for nothing
Five years and a billion taxpayers dollars too late.
It's not 100% addiction and mental illness. There are a LOT more immigrants. Many of them are not mentally ill or addicted. They are willing to work too.
Looks like a lot of men of fighting age to me among those “immigrants”.
And it’s the gated communities turn!
He sounds just like Josh Gates.
To many peop
Let's let in a million new immigrants and build No new houses and see what happens
Make Asylums Great Again....MAGA
Bawahhhhaaaa! Pathetic incompetents. But zero homeless was the goal. Jokes
There is a big pizza and 20 slieces: the few billionaires take 17 pieces then create illusions and manipulations the 2 slice middle class fight the 1 sllice poverty class. Why they fight each other both robbed ! Lol 😆 🤣 😂 wake up ! ;) peace !
Housing first works, without homes no one gets out of addiction
you on meth...??????...addiction treatment first....
@@lazynow1 how does sleeping outside in fear of being attacked, freezing, and in environments where drugs are easy to obtain not make it more difficult to get out of addiction? You can’t treat addiction without the stability of housing. It’s both, you need both at the same time.
@@williamcondon7729 Ok, dilhole....all these people need in treatment meaning...it will need to be gov. funded treatment center...similar to county jail.....so they will be "housed" by the gov. while they go to treatment...
@@lazynow1 jail isn’t housing, you have no right to lock up addicts and we don’t treat them there anyway. Jail is traumatizing in its own way just like being on the street, you clearly don’t know anyone who has gone through recovery or been in jail/prison.
@@williamcondon7729 so what out care treatment...??? and housing at tax payers expense...???....that will work...NOT...these people cannot be trusted...and it seems you need treatment as well....
Andrea lost 100% credibility when she blamed homelessness completely on addiction and mental illness. Touch grass lady
Replacing one bad non profit with another wont fix anything. Let's be real here capitalism wont allow for this problem to be solved properly.
King county is cursed by God
Cursed by Dow.
@@WalkiTalki Dow chemical? For sure cursed by God. Homosexuality and the police are an abomination before the Lord.
Then every red county in the country is cursed also. You know, because God sends floods and tornadoes to punish them.