Seattle’s Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is defending the use of a “multi-use room” inside one of its taxpayer-funded tiny home villages after We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez released video footage showing a designated drug-use area inside the facility.
The controversy erupted after Suarez toured the Interbay Tiny House Village while visiting a homeless client and documented what she described as a “fentanyl smoking shack” inside the encampment. Suarez later discussed the discovery during an appearance on The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI, alleging that sanctioned encampments across Seattle have quietly become de facto supervised drug consumption sites.
“There are fentanyl smoking rooms in tiny house villages…This is a low-barrier encampment where you can bring in whatever you want—including illegal drugs.”@weheartseattle founder Andrea Suarez was banned from a Seattle tiny home village after exposing rampant drug use pic.twitter.com/0ck0L8GGyn…