The problem of accelerating numbers of people with out housing in Seattle was delivered to the forefront once more within the Oct. 3, 2025, Seattle Occasions article “Seattle residents report encampments in record numbers.”
Although this dilemma is painfully irritating for all of us, it doesn’t should be this manner. Seattle and King County’s honest need to assist these struggling on the streets has resulted in our group establishing quite a few companies that, if professionally coordinated, can present compassionate care with a 50% or extra tax financial savings, as proven by knowledge from comparable jurisdictions. We don’t have to tax and spend extra. We have to coordinate what we’ve got already invested in professionally.
In Seattle, two mannequin nonprofit packages exist that handle particular person struggling on the road stage, offering a pathway to everlasting housing, self-sustaining occupations and turning into productive group members. The thrilling, but irritating, a part of this letter is that we have already got all of the items in place inside this group. If we begin coordinating our present sources instantly with medical and behavioral well being professionals, we are going to start to see the optimistic outcomes we’re searching for.
Speak to these of us working in these packages.
Peter Moote, Seattle
