THE MORE MONEY YOU SPEND ON HOMELESSNESS, THE MORE OF IT YOU BUY: “That’s the equivalent of spending… $1,137,256 per person to exit homelessness.”
Despite spending over $1.1 million for each of the only 126 people who transitioned out of homelessness, Washington Democrat Governor Jay Inslee claimed that his initiative for removing encampments from state land and getting people into housing requires more money in order to continue.
Inslee has failed to adequately address the state’s homeless crisis, which has grown exponentially during his more than a decade in office.
Friday, during a photo op at a tiny home village in Olympia, Inslee touted his Rights of Way Safety Initiative (ROW), a program that since last summer has attempted to remove encampments from state land, including from the sides of freeways, and transition the residents into housing.
Despite already spending an astronomical $143 million on the project, Inslee claimed that the program needed more money, telling KOMO News during Friday’s photo op, “We will need the Legislature, in January, to appropriate more funding because we’re out of funding for the Right of Way Initiative right now. We’ll need the legislature in January to step up to increase funding so we can continue the progress we’re making.”
I’ve lived in the Seattle area for 24 years, and it has been an issue for the entire time. “Helping the homeless” is pure graft and corruption, always has been. Most homeless are drug addicts and/or mentally ill, and don’t want to live in housing, it has too many rules.
h/t Zapitatio