Seattle Sweeps Encampment in Front of City-Funded Homeless Service Provider

The Sweeps Continue

Aggressive drug encampment sweeps in Seattle are happening on Easter weekend under Mayor Katie Wilson.

On Saturday, city crews removed the so called “service resistant” from the corner of 3rd Ave and Blanchard St. But they all came roaring back after cops left the area. The game of Whack-A-Mole is out of control.

This is near REACH HQ, the homeless outreach division of Evergreen Treatment Services.

This non-profit has received millions of dollars in taxpayer funding from the city to address the street crisis. Yet they can’t even handle the problem right in front of their building.

If one of the primary agencies tasked with getting men and women into housing can’t figure this out, how are they going to address the crisis across the city? No wonder homelessness numbers keep going up.

I recently confronted program director Chloe Gail about this serious optics problem for her agency.

Listen to the way she throws the city under the bus.

No New Solutions

The reality is, Mayor Wilson has surrounded herself with the same people from Homeless INC that enabled this street crisis for the past decade. She has no new solutions.

Low Income Housing Institute

And now the Low Income Housing Institute’s tiny house village program is being touted as the solution.

We’ve seen this all play out before. The only ones benefitting will be Homeless INC which includes the non-profits, land owners, and developers.