Jason Rantz: Seattle spends heavily to house homeless in pricey hotels and fancy penthouse view studios

Seattle leaders are squandering hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, including COVID relief funds, on pricey homeless hotels and studios that include wraparound services. Finally, they promise, this will supposedly address homelessness.

Shelter, housing, and services already exist in Seattle, yet the city’s homelessness just keeps getting worse. 

City leaders rarely see their lax policies or ideological agenda as the problem. They keep throwing money at housing and refuse to take a harder line approach to the homeless people who need it. And when the subsequent (and inevitable) failure hits, they just rinse, wash and repeat. It’s happening again.