Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced that she is going to add 1,000 shelter beds to lessen the city’s homelessness crisis, but details on how that will all be executed and paid for are scant.
Wilson says she wants to lean heavily on tiny home villages, introducing legislation to ease the permitting for those sites, reduce restrictions around their size, and encourage Seattleites to volunteer at one of the places that make the homes.
“For many years, and through multiple mayoral administrations, we have not treated this crisis with the urgency that it demands,” Wilson said…