Pierce County wants to use federal money to help those who are experiencing homelessness, but there’s a problem: they can’t agree on how to use it.
Pierce County wants to use federal money to help those who are experiencing homelessness, but there’s a problem: they can’t agree on how to use it.
Dammeier and Pierce County Council Chair Ryan Mello are at odds about how to use the money to help the homeless.“We have in our last homelessness census, over 2,600 people living on the streets of Pierce County. We are short a thousand shelter beds. Year over year, we have a rise in homelessness, according to our homelessness census. A 23% rise in homelessness. We are desperate to get people off the street, to get them into shelter.” Mello said.
Mello disagrees. “Housing takes years to build. We have a crisis today,” he said. “As I’m told, the executive does not believe that homelessness is a crisis or an emergency. As I’m told, what the executive has said is that we do not need more shelter beds. I think he’s very wrong about that.”
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