Washington State has been trying to deal with their homeless problem, but they haven’t had much success.
A program designed to close down tent communities and get homeless people into housing has already spent $143 million dollars to house less than a thousand people. That’s a horrible ratio.
And now they want more cash, because they think this program has been so effective.
FOX News reports:
Blue state’s $143 million homeless program got less than a thousand people housed. Now governor wants more
An initiative to remove homeless camps from roadways needs more money to continue next year, according to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, after burning through $143 million in a little over a year.
“You can’t do this with zero dollars,” Inslee, a Democrat, told KOMO News. “We’ll need the legislature in January to step up to increase funding so we can continue the progress we’re making.”
Inslee’s statewide Rights-of-Way Safety Initiative began in June 2022 with the goal of removing homeless camps from state property near roads and offering housing to the people living in the camps.
On Friday, Inslee toured a tiny home village in Olympia funded by the initiative that will soon provide shelter to 50 people who previously lived in an encampment along I-5, KOMO reported. The governor said during the tour that the safety initiative is out of money and, come January, camps will remain on state lands if the legislature does not allocate more funds.
“We’re very proud of the work state agencies have done in our right of way initiative working alongside local officials and service providers,” a spokesperson for the governor told Fox News in an email. “We will take as much funding as we can get to continue this work.”
Only a liberal government would think this is a success.
Blue state’s $143 million homeless program got less than a thousand people housed. Now governor wants more https://t.co/tVKDHTrekT #FoxNews At this rate Washington will need the 100B+ being wasted in the #UkraineWar to waste on trying to house homeless.
— Isaac Seliger (@SeligerGrants) September 15, 2023
One of the problems with this issue is that it has become an industry. Too many people are making good money trying to ‘end’ homelessness and therefore, don’t want it to end.
