How much do you think a nonprofit can spend to find permanent housing for a homeless person in Seattle?
If you guessed over $84,000, you win a prize. Not a big prize because the taxpayers of Seattle blew all their money on referring 51 homeless people to welfare agencies in the span of two years.
For perspective, @SalvationArmyUS‘s Street Level team in King County houses people for just over $2,000 per person. https://t.co/RiOcLMDcZH
— Caitlyn (Axe) McKenney (@CaitlynMcKenney) June 27, 2024
That $84,000 is not the total cost of housing those 51 people–that’s just the cut that the nonprofit We Deliver Care gets. Other funds from the city and similar nonprofits are kicked in on top of the more than $4 million We Deliver Care has been given over the past couple of years.
Seattle City Council members were quite happy with the nonprofit, they said, despite the fact that the region…
