Seattle Declares State Of Emergency On Homeless Crisis
The city’s massive growth is hindering its goal of ending homelessness.
11/03/2015
Lydia O’Connor
Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seattle-homeless-emergency_us_56392c7fe4b0411d306eb2eb#
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine this week declared states of emergency for their homeless crises, pledging millions to better serve residents living on the streets. Seattle outlined a $5.3 million plan to address the crisis, while King County proposed an additional $2 million. Garcetti in LA has same problem,50,000 homeless on the streets. Rents too high. Homeless too wasted on junk food to organize their lives.
The emergency declarations come months after Seattle failed to meet its goal of ending chronic homelessness in 10 years. That shortcoming is likely partly due to Seattle’s massive growth — it was the fastest-growing U.S. city last year — driving up housing prices and displacing lower-income residents.
The annual “One Night Count” on Jan. 23 in Seattle’s King County identified 3,772 individuals living on the streets — a 21 percent jump from the previous year’s count — with more than 2,800 of them in Seattle. The combined number of homeless people living on King County streets, shelters and transitional housing rose from 9,294 in 2014 to 10,047 this year, according to the count, organized by the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness.
A Seattle homeless man reassembles
his tent after it collapsed in rainstorm.
In Seattle it rains HALF THE TIME ALL YEAR. Imagine being in a tent all day.
The emergency funding will add to Seattle’s annual spending of more than $40 million and King County’s $36 million to help people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Murray said the local governments need more outside funding.
“The City is prepared to do more as the number of people in crisis continues to rise, but our federal and state partners must also do more,” Murray said in a statement. “Cities cannot do this alone. Addressing homelessness must be a national priority with a federal response.”
About half of Seattle’s $5.3 million will be designated as flexible funds to “quickly move people through the emergency shelter system into stable housing,” establish more support and case management for homeless youth, improve data collection on homelessness and manage public health and waste at homeless encampments.
The homelessness organization All Home King County applauded the city and county leaders’ emergency declarations.
“Their commitments of local resources are action steps toward our strategies for addressing the immediate crisis of homelessness, and making it brief and only a one-time occurrence,” All Home King County said in a statement.
Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles and the state of Hawaii all declared homeless states of emergency earlier this year.
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