With House Bill 2266 passing, the door has been opened for supportive housing to be located in any neighborhood in the state.
Following the bill’s passage, Andrea Suarez, the executive director of We Heart Seattle, toured a so-called “tiny house village” and made discoveries that would “blow your mind” about the drug use being enabled inside.
“These are low barrier, meaning drugs are allowed inside. There’s no requirement to enroll in treatment at these shelters known as tiny house villages,” Suarez said. “Often, people want to tell us what’s going on inside the villages. It caught me, actually, by surprise to have this like blatant, tiny home that volunteers built that was designated, as [my client] pointed out, to specifically use fentanyl and with your dealer.”
Low-barrier housing harbors dealers, enables fentanyl use
Suarez noted she has been in this line of work for five years now, and continues to be shocked at the fact that the tiny house villages are harboring drug dealers with no proactive intervention programs…