The Seattle homeless industrial complex spends more than $600 million a year across overlapping city, county, and regional agencies. Specifically, Seattle’s Human Services Department alone runs a $421 million 2026 budget, and the King County Regional Homelessness Authority adds another $205 million. Furthermore, the region’s homeless population rose to more than 16,000 in the 2024…
The I-5 homeless industrial complex spans three West Coast metros connected by a single freeway. Specifically, the Portland metro spent over $700 million on homelessness in a single year. Seattle’s Human Services Department runs a $421 million 2026 budget. Furthermore, Los Angeles County approved a $908 million homeless services spending plan for 2025-26. That is…
The dissolution moved from rhetoric to reality on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski formally introduced legislation to end the county’s participation in the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. Vice Chair Reagan Dunn co-sponsored. A companion Seattle measure from Councilmember Maritza Rivera is moving in parallel. The plan: a formal council vote…
Who really runs Seattle? Not Bruce Harrell. Not Katie Wilson. The mayor’s office has changed hands twice in five years. The corporate-real estate machine and the labor-progressive machine spend millions fighting each other on stage. Behind them, the same 18-member appointed boards, the same three or four political consulting firms, the same 60-plus revolving-door lobbyists,…
