Nine-Year, Three-Month Plan
If you’re like Seattlest, you hate the game, not the playa. If you’re a Seattle City Council member, you heart the homeless, but they tents the live in? Not so much. Councilmembers unanimously approved Harry Potter-esque District 2 council member Bill “Fergie” Ferguson’s proposal to turn closed motels into homeless housing. The “Jumpstart Initiative” is modeled on the Aloha Inn, the Aurora Avenue motel-turned-tent city remedy the city purchased in 1991. That earsplitting sound you hear was Seattlest nearly ripping the Velcro clean off our Trapper Keeper as we rushed to graph the breakneck pace of the council’s progress toward the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.
The Ten-Year Plan was approved in March. An estimated 8,300 people sleep on King County’s streets each night. With 9 years, three months to go, all we need to do is add tent-free housing for 75 additonal people per day from now until 2015. Cinchy, right?
