House Bill 2266 passed this last session, opening up the door for supportive housing to be placed in any neighborhood in the state.
Following the bill’s passage, Andrea Suarez of We Heart Seattle took a tour of a so-called “tiny village” and made a shocking discovery of how these villages are enabling drug users when speaking with a resident.
“There’s a drug house right there for people who do drugs. So you come and do your drugs, if you’re going to do fetty (fentanyl) or something, you come in here and do it,” the tiny village resident told Suarez. “You come in here to do your fetty, and nobody says anything. Narcan is up here. Usually, it’s full of people; it’s the end of the month. Everybody’s running out of money. It’s funny because the drug dealers, they’re in there smoking with people.”
‘Boy, was I wrong’: Spike reverses stance on tiny villages
Jake Skorheim, co-host of “The Jake and Spike Show” on KIRO Newsradio, was shocked to hear that even drug dealers are inside the supportive housing areas dealing and using drugs, noting they now have a conglomerate of clientele housed in one area…