× 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.