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Regional approach to homelessness may require Seattle to give up some control

December 17, 2019 by webmaster Leave a Comment

by David Kroman, December 12, 2019

“We are [giving up control] and there’s been a lot of questions about, ‘Why are you doing that?’ ” said Seattle City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw. “And the answer is, if we’re going to do something different, this is the best advice that we’ve got from the national consultants, who are looking at best practices from across the nation, and that it has to be a regional approach and that means everyone has to give a little.”

On Wednesday, the King County Council passed legislation to establish the new regional authority by way of an agreement between jurisdictions.

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