After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.
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Seattle Paid for Shelter Beds That It Left Vacant Despite a Massive Need for Housing

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

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While waiting for the ferry, I spotted this gull eating a starfish, looked like chocking at first…

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I can't help with this, as I no longer live in WA. But fellow Washingtonians, you can help with this. Let's make sure trans youth continue to receive proper care in the pnw.

L. N. Mosteller (she/her), Boosted from @aidapsibr: Also, if you are in Washington state, please take the time to comment on support of SB 5489, the companion bill to SB 5599 which does what other blue states have done in protecting trans youth and people seeking reproductive health care from subpoena, extradition, warrants, etc.

#trans #TransRights #TransLaw #TransLaws #TransLivesMatter #ProtectTransYouth #Washington

app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Bil… an hour ago. Public.