SEATTLE — Neha Nariya says she and her family were trying to help the city during a time of crisis, but now feel like they’ve been left with a crisis of their own.
There are people who do things, and there are people who say they could have done things. And this is one of those moments,” said the owner of the Civic Hotel in South Lake Union. “We’re stepping up to help the community.
That’s why Nariya and her late father agreed to lease the hotel to the City and King County in 2020 to serve as a homeless shelter. But she says, after the County ended the lease in December of 2024, they failed to abide by the contract and clean the place up…