Just today, Governor “Sideshow Bob” Ferguson signed HB2266 into law. This new law makes “Permanent Supportive Housing” for homeless drug addicts legal everywhere. In the State. No “zoning it out” allowed. Makes permitting easier, statewide. Local jurisdictions may not refuse permits for this kind of homeless housing. Here is what now awaits towns and cities all over Washington State.
Jonathan Choe has done great work publicizing the results of said housing in neighborhoods. This homeless housing is “low barrier”, meaning that new “residents” do not have to get treatment for their drug addiction. They are allowed to use and sell drugs from their new “units”. This housing is supposed to come with a range of “ancillary services”, such as employment, drug treatment, social services, etc. However, the residents are not required to accept or use any of the offered services. Below is a quote from the above article.
All the GOP arguments against HB 2266 centered on the dangers of state overreach.
They should have focused on the drug dealers living in these apartments or the fact more people now die of drug overdoses behind closed doors than on the streets. Let’s also not forget about the inordinate amount of 911 calls these Housing First drug dens trigger in the community.
The reality is, Republican lawmakers do not live in Seattle and King County. They can’t win seats in these far-left progressive bastions.
Point is, many of these conservative elected officials living in smaller cities have never seen these devastating effects first hand.
Here’s an article from 2024.
Recently, some of this “low barrier” housing was opened in the wealthy suburb of Bellevue. Jonathan did a great story about what the PorchLight Housing by Plymouth Housing brought with it.
Back last September, the Bellevue residents packed a city council meeting to let their feelings be known about the crime and disorder brought to their area by the Permanent Supportive Housing. Needless to say, they were not very happy.
And now, Permanent Supportive Housing is coming to the next wealthy suburb, Redmond. Residents are overjoyed!
Commentary from the head of the GOP in WA.
So, the rest of the State of Washington can now prepare for the addition of drugs, crime, homeless tents, and addicts passed out on their streets too. And their towns have no recourse. They MUST give building permits to the Homeless-Industrial Complex to build housing for the addicts and criminals. Because that is what they are.
We all know what happens here in Washington. Plymouth Housing and LIHI (Low-income Housing Institute) are recipients of millions of taxpayer dollars. They build apartment buildings with attached social services for the “homeless”. The homeless vagrants move into their new housing. They do NOT take advantage of all the services that must be provided to them. The apartments are trashed, utilities and furniture destroyed or sold for drug money. Residents use drugs in their units with little supervision; create nuisance noise and rubbish inside and outside their units; they steal from neighbors and businesses to support their drug habits; and they overdose and die in the streets surrounding their housing.
And then, in gratitude for the state largesse, the recipients donate thousands of those dollars right back to the DemocRats in the legislature who pay them. It’s a nice little money-laundering racket, on the back of innocent taxpayers who now have no choice but to live with them in their neighborhoods.
Or not. They can try to move. With this, and the shiny new income tax just passed by the legislature, many Washingtonians have decided that this will be the last straw. Even politicians are moving away. Will you be next?
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