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Marc Dones: Consultant offered top job at new King County regional homelessness authority

Marc Dones: Consultant offered top job at new King County regional homelessness authority
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Candidate chosen to lead King County homelessness authority turns down job

A homelessness authority was supposed to get Seattle and its suburbs on the same page; after a slow year, they may be further apart

× A ‘homelessness authority’ was supposed to get Seattle and its suburbs on the same page; after a slow year, they may be further apart By Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times Published: January 10, 2021, 6:00am Share: Harold Odom, a co-chair of the regional homelessness authority s implementation board, has been doing his work for the county from a tiny house in Georgetown. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times/TNS) SEATTLE King County Executive Dow Constantine has been thinking a lot this past year about his first exposure to politics as a child: the Paris peace talks at the end of the Vietnam War. Famously, before the talks could even start, they were held up by a disagreement about the shape of the table the North and South Vietnamese leaders would sit around.

Communities struggle to make best use of largest influx of homeless aid in U S history

Communities struggle to make best use of largest influx of homeless aid in U.S. history Shaena Montanari and Natalie Walters, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Winter in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most. The shelter that normally provided nighttime refuge was closed because of COVID-19, and federal aid money meant to help protect homeless people from the pandemic came late and with confusing restrictions. By the time Long-Curtiss got permission to erect temporary shelters purchased with her community’s share of the funding, temperatures already were dipping below freezing. She had just one week to ready the site and make potentially life-and-death decisions.

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