Homeless Industrial Complex

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 Read More ›

Profit Machine Plymouth Housing is one of the most notorious players in WA’s homeless industrial complex. It is a massive profit machine with huge backing from influential business leaders and politicians. It is constantly touted by many Democrats as the ideal model to address the street crisis and help people regain self sufficiency. But listen to this executive admit there is ZERO incentive to help formerly homeless people find jobs and careers. That’s because if clients make too much money, they wouldn’t qualify for taxpayer subsidized housing. In other words, everyone is a dollar sign to Plymouth, and the goal is to keep them warehoused as long as possible. The longer people stay, the more money Plymouth can bank. Extremely Read More ›

Making the Problem Worse The homeless drug crisis is out of control in Seattle. And it’s now evident Mayor Katie Wilson is going to make the problem worse. During her first State of the City address, she talked about building more housing and shelter. But no solutions to deal with mental illness or drug addiction ravaging the city. Sweep, Sweep, Sweep Aside from changing some policy language, she is pretty much doing the same thing as the last mayor of Seattle. Sweep, sweep, sweep. And the game of Whack-A-Mole continues. Same Old Same Old Wilson’s spokesperson recently told the Seattle Times that, “the mayor isn’t pursuing a significant shift in encampment clearing strategies from the previous administration.” Ignoring the Service Read More ›

Even as many volunteers are taking to the cold streets to try to find and quantify the number of homeless Americans living there now, two lawsuits filed late last year in a federal District Court are blocking millions of dollars from reaching the neediest people. The first lawsuit was filed by the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), and the second by a coalition led by Washington State’s Attorney General Nick Brown. The lawsuits seek to stop the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from redirecting a larger share of public dollars to treatment-based homeless programs. Both suits seek to force the continued pretense that permanent subsidized housing projects will end homelessness. These efforts fail the smell test. Read More ›

Enabling Chaos Representatives with the homeless industrial complex are in Olympia this week, begging lawmakers for more money and support. They know funding cuts are on the way to the disastrous permanent supportive housing models that enable crime, chaos, and death in WA communities. Meanwhile, the Plymouth Housing/PorchLight campus has already triggered multiple 911 calls in this new year. Listen to this bizarre incident on January 16. A bystander reported this vicious beatdown outside the facility in the Eastgate neighborhood. But once the fellas involved realized they were being watched by witnesses, they pretended like it was just an “act” and quickly walked back into Plymouth.

On January 12, Epoch Times premiered a new episode of American Thought Leaders featuring Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Choe. Choe laid bare the overlap between far-left activist groups such as Antifa and the institutions that are supposed to be helping people out of homelessness (otherwise known as the Homeless Industrial Complex). “The homeless are being used,” Choe told host Jan Jekielek. “Antifa, the far-left activists, they want to keep the tent encampments on America’s streets to show that capitalism isn’t working.”

Across America’s streets, the homeless epidemic is claiming lives, fracturing families, and eroding public safety. Often deeply intertwined with mental illness and addiction, it has become a humanitarian crisis that traps vulnerable individuals in cycles of dependence and despair while destabilizing the communities around them. This crisis has been worsened by policies that elevate the notion of “freedom” over timely, life-saving intervention. Recent events make the consequences of that choice unmistakably clear. Continuing on the current path is neither humane nor responsible. Consider what unfolded in New York City over the holidays. A woman with a documented history of serious mental illness and homelessness was released from psychiatric care, only to purchase a knife hours later, then repeatedly stab a Read More ›

Tackling the Root Causes HUD Secretary Scott Turner takes direct aim at America’s “homeless industrial complex” and says the the days of “warehousing people” are over. The Trump administration is reallocating federal dollars to tackle the root causes of homelessness like drug addiction and mental illness. This plan could cripple so called Housing First programs that do not require people to find jobs or enter drug treatment. Many of these understaffed facilities under Housing First also trigger the most 911 calls in cities, allow drug use behind closed doors, and attract an inordinate amount of crime to neighborhoods. California and WA are ranked in the top three for overall homelessness in the nation. But elected officials in these states are Read More ›

All Eyes on Seattle National media is now focusing on Homeless Inc.’s ties to far-left activists and Antifa in Seattle. The Trump administration is following the money and cracking down on this grift. When will local politicians wake up and admit there’s a problem?

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Capital Research Center (CRC) released a new report in cooperation with Discovery Institute exploring how extremist ideological movements are exploiting America’s homelessness crisis, which can include hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people on any given night. Using financial data, legal records, and original research, the report uncovers a vast network of homelessness advocates that spend billions in taxpayer dollars and philanthropic grants on everything but obvious solutions. The report demonstrates that counterproductive policies have been used for years which do not solve the homelessness problem, but rather exacerbate common root causes of homelessness, including mental health challenges and substance abuse. The key findings of the report expose the groups that have co-opted the homelessness issue Read More ›