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This is Permanent Supportive “Housing First” in Seattle on full display. Just three weeks ago, (intellectually disabled) Jacob was placed in a brand new DESC Housing project and has been assaulted, offered illegal drugs, and harassed by drug addicted and violent neighbors. Listen to Jacob plead to Mayor Katie...

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Men and Women in recovery tell all that mandated treatment before or with housing is the path out. Meanwhile our state is suing the feds demanding funding for the very programs that have trapped these people in addition. Listen to the experts here 👇🏼Bob Ferguson Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Council Seattle City Council King County Executive Girmay Zahilay Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Men and Women in recovery tell all that mandated treatment before or with housing is the path out. Meanwhile our state is suing the feds demanding funding for the very programs that have trapped these people in addition. Listen to the experts here 👇🏼Bob Ferguson Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Council Seattle City Council King County Executive Girmay Zahilay Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Update: Jacob just bailed on his “free” permanent supportive housing in Seattle after only a few weeks and is heading back to his home state, Missouri He was assaulted DESC and saw firsthand the rampant drugs, untreated mental illness, and chaos these facilities have become. Despite his own disabilities, Jacob understands the policy failure better than most: warehousing people under the Housing First model isn’t compassion, it’s harming the vulnerable, the neighborhood, and everyone paying for it. Mayor Katie B. Wilson this isn’t working. Attorney General Nick Brown please investigate these inhumane taxpayer-funded conditions. Real reform is overdue.
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Update: Jacob just bailed on his “free” permanent supportive housing in Seattle after only a few weeks and is heading back to his home state, Missouri He was assaulted DESC and saw firsthand the rampant drugs, untreated mental illness, and chaos these facilities have become. Despite his own disabilities, Jacob understands the policy failure better than most: warehousing people under the Housing First model isn’t compassion, it’s harming the vulnerable, the neighborhood, and everyone paying for it. Mayor Katie B. Wilson this isn’t working. Attorney General Nick Brown please investigate these inhumane taxpayer-funded conditions. Real reform is overdue.

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A Mom with toddler awaits her drug dealer to let her in to a Plymouth Housing project. Tax Payer funded Plymouth on Stewart houses four major known drug dealers in Seattle. The rest of the residents “are drug addicted thieves” according to my trusted sources. Housing doesn’t end crime, addiction, or street loitering. Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Executives Braddock & Constantine Department of Housing and Urban Development
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A Mom with toddler awaits her drug dealer to let her in to a Plymouth Housing project. Tax Payer funded Plymouth on Stewart houses four major known drug dealers in Seattle. The rest of the residents “are drug addicted thieves” according to my trusted sources. Housing doesn’t end crime, addiction, or street loitering. Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Executives Braddock & Constantine Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Another random run in with a Mom and addicted Son who stopped to give me their testimony of Housing First. Christopher lives Plymouth Housing and has been a volunteer for We Heart Seattle until the CEO banned me from recruiting more residents to come out with us. She proclaimed they were too vulnerable to volunteer 🙄 Listen to Christopher tell us that treatment before housing would be better. I wish Homeless, Inc. would stop suing the feds and start looking and listening to suffering addicts like Christopher and his heartbroken Mom. Department of Housing and Urban Development Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Executives Braddock & Constantine
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Another random run in with a Mom and addicted Son who stopped to give me their testimony of Housing First. Christopher lives Plymouth Housing and has been a volunteer for We Heart Seattle until the CEO banned me from recruiting more residents to come out with us. She proclaimed they were too vulnerable to volunteer 🙄 Listen to Christopher tell us that treatment before housing would be better. I wish Homeless, Inc. would stop suing the feds and start looking and listening to suffering addicts like Christopher and his heartbroken Mom. Department of Housing and Urban Development Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Executives Braddock & Constantine

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Just walked through known hot spot Blanchard and 3rd in Seattle and encountered a group of housed men using, soliciting for, and dealing prescribed Methadone (an opioid pushed by state funded providers). See? All have housing so why do we keep saying this is a housing crisis? Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor Mayor Bruce Harrell King County Regional Homelessness Authority T Wolf 🌁 vginnyburton BattlefieldAddiction Seattle Police Department Jonathan Choe David Kroman The Seattle Times KUOW Public Radio
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Just walked through known hot spot Blanchard and 3rd in Seattle and encountered a group of housed men using, soliciting for, and dealing prescribed Methadone (an opioid pushed by state funded providers). See? All have housing so why do we keep saying this is a housing crisis? Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor Mayor Bruce Harrell King County Regional Homelessness Authority T Wolf 🌁 vginnyburton BattlefieldAddiction Seattle Police Department Jonathan Choe David Kroman The Seattle Times KUOW Public Radio

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A Mother and young Son give testimony that housing before treatment enabled his addiction for years. Listen to Sage explain first hand the failures of Housing First. Ultimately it was the higher power of God that set him free. It’s promising that Scott Turner and Department of Housing and Urban Development are ensuring faith based organizations get their fair share of the budget and that housing with compulsory services be adopted by local municipalities. Public Health - Seattle & King County Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Executives Braddock & Constantine
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A Mother and young Son give testimony that housing before treatment enabled his addiction for years. Listen to Sage explain first hand the failures of Housing First. Ultimately it was the higher power of God that set him free. It’s promising that Scott Turner and Department of Housing and Urban Development are ensuring faith based organizations get their fair share of the budget and that housing with compulsory services be adopted by local municipalities. Public Health - Seattle & King County Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Executives Braddock & Constantine

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Watch for yourself what “affordable housing” or “housing first” looks like in Seattle. Rosa hasn’t slept in her apartment in over a year and instead lives on the streets where we met. She invited me into her home to see why she doesn’t sleep there. DESC a 100M NPO keeps building more and more housing projects without first investing in the need for supportive services they claim to offer (and on your tax paying dollar). 👇🏼Rosa is educating voters and I hope you listen to her. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Watch for yourself what “affordable housing” or “housing first” looks like in Seattle. Rosa hasn’t slept in her apartment in over a year and instead lives on the streets where we met. She invited me into her home to see why she doesn’t sleep there. DESC a 100M NPO keeps building more and more housing projects without first investing in the need for supportive services they claim to offer (and on your tax paying dollar). 👇🏼Rosa is educating voters and I hope you listen to her. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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During this week’s cleanup we found a 9-month-old baby & mom living in a tent in the park. Mom has already cycled through the best family shelter programs in the county… yet she’s still on the streets. Immediate needs: clothes, food & diapers. She wants a low-barrier (illegal drugs allowed) tiny home. Multiple agencies referred her to the cities’s Unified Care Team. Pallet Shelters are literally across the street. We’ll make daily contact & neighbors are stepping up. This is why “housing first” fails families. Treatment & accountability first saves lives. Mayor Katie B. Wilson King County Executive Girmay Zahilay Governor Bob Ferguson Seattle City Council King County Council
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#Breaking In Helltown Belltown another daytime felony charge for burglary, harassment and assault by strangulation at low barrier housing first project Lewiston Scargo ran by Plymouth Housing Just another day and the life in Belltown as the rest of us try and make our way home, to work, to soccer. Mayor Bruce Harrell King County Regional Homelessness Authority Public Health - Seattle & King County Governor Bob Ferguson Seattle City Council housing before treatment is failing humanity on all fronts.
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#Breaking In Helltown Belltown another daytime felony charge for burglary, harassment and assault by strangulation at low barrier housing first project Lewiston Scargo ran by Plymouth Housing Just another day and the life in Belltown as the rest of us try and make our way home, to work, to soccer. Mayor Bruce Harrell King County Regional Homelessness Authority Public Health - Seattle & King County Governor Bob Ferguson Seattle City Council housing before treatment is failing humanity on all fronts.

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#EXCLUSIVE: One week ago, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson took a victory lap during the State of the City address and implied her new approach to housing the homeless was working. Problem is, one of the women allegedly housed is now back on the streets. She claims city workers offered her a mold infested shelter unit inside the Low Income Housing Institute's Interbay Village. There are now calls for audits of all agencies helping the homeless, including the city's own outreach team. Mayor Katie B. Wilson|Seattle Police Department|Seattle City Attorney's Office|Councilmember Dan Strauss|We Heart Seattle|King County Regional Homelessness Authority|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute|LIHI
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Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Funding requires low barrier (drugs allowed), and “harm reduction” practices like this dedicated volunteer built tiny home to smoke illegal and lethal Fentanyl. Do the voters know they are paying for this and to be installed in their communities? Do our elected officials know Mayor Katie B. Wilson City of Seattle ? If King County Executive Girmay Zahilay King County Regional Homelessness Authority Public Health - Seattle & King County called them “Safe” Consumption Sights” at least we could stop debating what some of these villages actually are set up to do. Transparency is accountability.
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Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Funding requires low barrier (drugs allowed), and “harm reduction” practices like this dedicated volunteer built tiny home to smoke illegal and lethal Fentanyl. Do the voters know they are paying for this and to be installed in their communities? Do our elected officials know Mayor Katie B. Wilson City of Seattle ? If King County Executive Girmay Zahilay King County Regional Homelessness Authority Public Health - Seattle & King County called them “Safe” Consumption Sights” at least we could stop debating what some of these villages actually are set up to do. Transparency is accountability.

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NEW: Parts of Seattle look like sh*t. And Mayor Katie Wilson is overwhelmed with homeless drug encampments popping up everyday. That's because she's captured by the same policy failures of "Housing First" and "harm reduction." I sat down with John Curley and Andrea Suarez on KIRO Newsradio to discuss the city's permissive drug culture and this street crisis that just won't go away. We Heart Seattle|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute|The John Curley Show|Mayor Katie B. Wilson

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Please take a few minutes to listen to my interview with Hana Kim on FOX 13 Seattle on our working model of treatment before warehousing folks. We talk about the many providers available that offer clean and sober housing with treatment programming that not just save lives but transform lives. BattlefieldAddiction King County Regional Homelessness Authority Mayor Bruce Harrell Katie Wilson Governor Bob Ferguson Seattle City Council Sara Nelson
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Please take a few minutes to listen to my interview with Hana Kim on FOX 13 Seattle on our working model of treatment before warehousing folks. We talk about the many providers available that offer clean and sober housing with treatment programming that not just save lives but transform lives. BattlefieldAddiction King County Regional Homelessness Authority Mayor Bruce Harrell Katie Wilson Governor Bob Ferguson Seattle City Council Sara Nelson

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169,012 views • 11 months ago

NEW: The Downtown Emergency Service Center cancer is spreading across Seattle. This latest incident at DESC's Hobson Place perfectly encompasses what's wrong with Housing First policies and permanent supportive housing. There is an elderly woman who has to share a floor with fentanyl dealers and drug addicts. Why is this vulnerable woman living in a place like this? Was this the only option for her in the final years of her life? What responsibility does taxpayer funded DESC have in keeping senior citizens safe in their facilities? I could go on and on. Then right in front of Hobson Place, people are smoking fentanyl and partying on the sidewalk. Down the block, there is another massive tent encampment where DESC residents buy and sell drugs. The homeless industrial complex has created an eco-system of crime, chaos, and death wherever it goes. This is why the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is in the process of defunding these hell holes. The city, county, and state should follow suit.
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NEW: The Downtown Emergency Service Center cancer is spreading across Seattle. This latest incident at DESC's Hobson Place perfectly encompasses what's wrong with Housing First policies and permanent supportive housing. There is an elderly woman who has to share a floor with fentanyl dealers and drug addicts. Why is this vulnerable woman living in a place like this? Was this the only option for her in the final years of her life? What responsibility does taxpayer funded DESC have in keeping senior citizens safe in their facilities? I could go on and on. Then right in front of Hobson Place, people are smoking fentanyl and partying on the sidewalk. Down the block, there is another massive tent encampment where DESC residents buy and sell drugs. The homeless industrial complex has created an eco-system of crime, chaos, and death wherever it goes. This is why the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is in the process of defunding these hell holes. The city, county, and state should follow suit.

Jonathan Choe

31,233 views • 11 days ago

TRUTH BOMB: Listen to Seattle's homeless fentanyl addicts. They're now admitting illegal drugs are fueling the street crisis. But Mayor Katie Wilson and other Democrats think they can build their way out of this problem. Meanwhile, nothing will change in this city until elected officials focus on making treatment mandatory before giving away free taxpayer funded apartments and studios. That will only benefit Homeless INC and all the builders. We've already witnessed the failure of Housing First for more than a decade. Mayor Katie B. Wilson|Seattle Police Department| Seattle City Attorney's Office|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute| Girmay Zahilay
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TRUTH BOMB: Listen to Seattle's homeless fentanyl addicts. They're now admitting illegal drugs are fueling the street crisis. But Mayor Katie Wilson and other Democrats think they can build their way out of this problem. Meanwhile, nothing will change in this city until elected officials focus on making treatment mandatory before giving away free taxpayer funded apartments and studios. That will only benefit Homeless INC and all the builders. We've already witnessed the failure of Housing First for more than a decade. Mayor Katie B. Wilson|Seattle Police Department| Seattle City Attorney's Office|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute| Girmay Zahilay

Jonathan Choe

18,302 views • 3 months ago

Just because we keep building more shelter beds and tiny home villages doesn’t mean people actually stay in them. That’s why, despite all the spending and new capacity, our streets never look cleaner or safer. Homeless drug addicts continue to roam the city, loitering in parks and using fentanyl and meth in plain view. Nicholas confided that the policy at the tiny home villages is remarkably lax: residents are only required to stay there two or three nights a week to avoid eviction. That means they’re still spending four or five nights homeless on the streets. Mayor Katie B. Wilson Seattle City Council King County Executive Girmay Zahilay
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Just because we keep building more shelter beds and tiny home villages doesn’t mean people actually stay in them. That’s why, despite all the spending and new capacity, our streets never look cleaner or safer. Homeless drug addicts continue to roam the city, loitering in parks and using fentanyl and meth in plain view. Nicholas confided that the policy at the tiny home villages is remarkably lax: residents are only required to stay there two or three nights a week to avoid eviction. That means they’re still spending four or five nights homeless on the streets. Mayor Katie B. Wilson Seattle City Council King County Executive Girmay Zahilay

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52,346 views • 2 months ago

HIDDEN SEATTLE: A few days ago, outreach group We Heart Seattle(We Heart Seattle) found a stolen United Rentals(United Rentals) forklift abandoned in a #Seattle homeless encampment along the East Duwamish Greenbelt. But there was much more. Walking further into the heavily wooded area, we discovered a constellation of tents and structures, even some set up under I-5 which is Washington State Department of Transportation(Washington State DOT) property. We spoke to several people who say they are intentionally trying to live off the grid. This is a choice. Once again, this is not a housing issue. "Housing first" is not working. Yet this entire region is doubling down on this failed policy. There are people who do not want to pay rent, bills, and are taking advantage of the free services here in #KingCounty. FACTS. The King County Regional Homelessness Authority(King County Regional Homelessness Authority) needs to accept this reality. So does the entire state of Washington. Don't just talk to the academics. Talk to the people actually living out here. More and more homeless say they will be moving out into the woods and just want to be left alone. Mayor Katie B. Wilson @GovInslee King County Executives Braddock & Constantine Seattle City Council Washington State Department of Commerce King County Council @CMSaraNelson Councilmember Tammy J. Morales Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda Reagan Dunn Lisa Herbold Seattle Parks @SeattleShines Sarah Clifthorne
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HIDDEN SEATTLE: A few days ago, outreach group We Heart Seattle(We Heart Seattle) found a stolen United Rentals(United Rentals) forklift abandoned in a #Seattle homeless encampment along the East Duwamish Greenbelt. But there was much more. Walking further into the heavily wooded area, we discovered a constellation of tents and structures, even some set up under I-5 which is Washington State Department of Transportation(Washington State DOT) property. We spoke to several people who say they are intentionally trying to live off the grid. This is a choice. Once again, this is not a housing issue. "Housing first" is not working. Yet this entire region is doubling down on this failed policy. There are people who do not want to pay rent, bills, and are taking advantage of the free services here in #KingCounty. FACTS. The King County Regional Homelessness Authority(King County Regional Homelessness Authority) needs to accept this reality. So does the entire state of Washington. Don't just talk to the academics. Talk to the people actually living out here. More and more homeless say they will be moving out into the woods and just want to be left alone. Mayor Katie B. Wilson @GovInslee King County Executives Braddock & Constantine Seattle City Council Washington State Department of Commerce King County Council @CMSaraNelson Councilmember Tammy J. Morales Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda Reagan Dunn Lisa Herbold Seattle Parks @SeattleShines Sarah Clifthorne

Jonathan Choe

77,462 views • 3 years ago

NEW: Lake City neighbors are blasting socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson after her first State of the City address. They say she failed to offer solutions to combat the fentanyl epidemic destroying lives on the streets. People living on 33rd Ave NE say their hood is an absolute disaster zone and looks like a scene out of a zombie movie. Addicts are laid out on the road, kids play in a needle infested park, and drug encampments are spreading on to sidewalks. One brave resident shot this video today from his car to prove how bad it is right now. He's challenging Mayor Wilson to show up and see the drug fueled chaos and human suffering for herself. This community is demanding immediate solutions and is tired of the Housing First mantra that is clearly not working. Mayor Katie B. Wilson|Seattle Police Department|Seattle City Attorney's Office|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute|Public Health - Seattle & King County
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NEW: Lake City neighbors are blasting socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson after her first State of the City address. They say she failed to offer solutions to combat the fentanyl epidemic destroying lives on the streets. People living on 33rd Ave NE say their hood is an absolute disaster zone and looks like a scene out of a zombie movie. Addicts are laid out on the road, kids play in a needle infested park, and drug encampments are spreading on to sidewalks. One brave resident shot this video today from his car to prove how bad it is right now. He's challenging Mayor Wilson to show up and see the drug fueled chaos and human suffering for herself. This community is demanding immediate solutions and is tired of the Housing First mantra that is clearly not working. Mayor Katie B. Wilson|Seattle Police Department|Seattle City Attorney's Office|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute|Public Health - Seattle & King County

Jonathan Choe

107,092 views • 5 months ago

NEW: 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. 🧵👇 Mayor Katie B. Wilson|Seattle Police Department|Seattle City Attorney's Office|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute
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NEW: 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. 🧵👇 Mayor Katie B. Wilson|Seattle Police Department|Seattle City Attorney's Office|Center on Wealth & Poverty at Discovery Institute

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190,815 views • 5 months ago