(The Center Square) – Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is calling on neighboring cities in King County to help shelter the homeless population, expressing a willingness to provide funding from Seattle toward shelters and services in other jurisdictions offer suitable municipal land to host these facilities.
“Put simply, if another city is willing to host needed shelter, we will pay for it,” Harrell said in his 2026 budget proposal video last week.
Harrell’s $8.9 billion 2026 budget proposal includes $225 million in funding to respond to homelessness. However, the mayor noted that recent data from the King County Regional Homelessness Authority revealed that about 70% of Seattle’s homeless population became homeless outside of the city…