As the World Cup in Seattle draws near, Mayor Katie Wilson said she wants to build 500 tiny homes for the city’s homeless population by June 15, and 1,000 total by the end of the year.
Andrea Suarez, the executive director of We Heart Seattle, speaking on “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio, estimated each tiny home would cost roughly $5,000. Suarez demanded to see the facts that supportive housing has enacted real change rather than stand as a breeding ground for drug use.
“The persuasion on her end and to the council is that this is a place to stabilize a person. Just get them inside to stabilize them. But when you’re being housed with your drug dealer and your permanent drug buddy on either side of you, how is that stabilizing?” Suarez said. “Show me the 100 people that graduated in the last 90 days, that went to treatment, reunited with family, went back to work, show us those success stories. I think we’re hungry for that, and then we’ll shut up…