Over 100 homeless people are in danger of losing their shelter, their stability, and their community this weekend, due to a failure of leadership by the City of Seattle (looking at you, Bruce Harrell) and the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. 🧵publicola.com/2025/05/14/las… Tent City 4, one of SHARE’s self-managed homeless communities, has jumped through all the hoops for their planned move to public land in Lake City. But suddenly the lease agreement between the City of Seattle and the KCRHA appears to have fallen through, for no good reason.

JumpStart revenues for 2024 came in $47 million lower than projected. This should not be a surprise; the payroll expense tax is a robust and progressive revenue source but it’s also volatile. 🧵seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p… That’s why JumpStart was originally intended primarily for capital projects like affordable housing, not to fund ongoing operations that depend on stable funding from year to year. This is one reason why Harrell’s approach to last year’s budget process was short-sighted: