Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales, who oversees the Chinatown-International District (CID), says she feels 'pensive' about the County Executive's decision to end plans to expand a homeless shelter.
The Salvation Army’s shelter will continue receiving operations funding from King County and Seattle through the King County Regional Homelessness Authority and will remain in its location on county-leased property.
The existing operation in SODO, which began in 2021, will continue operating over the next five years. The site provides enhanced shelter that allows a person to stabilize without having to check out every morning and check back in every night. “The rollout of information around the proposed shelter expansion perpetuated the trauma that the CID community has experienced. In my discussions with community members, they have expressed frustration with a lack of transparency in government planning processes in the neighborhood. This lack of transparency allowed for bad-faith political actors without ties to the CID, such as a conservative think tank, to co-opt the narrative and cloud organic neighborhood resistance.
“While this expansion has halted, there remains an immense need for the types of services that have been proposed by the County,” Morales continued. “Each night, thousands of people sleep on the streets and every year too many people are dying. We need to act with the urgency this crisis deserves so that we can best serve all our neighbors moving forward, both housed and unhoused.”
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