Breaking: Trump orders roll back of disastrous Housing First strategy on homelessness
Breaking: Trump orders roll back of disastrous Housing First strategy on homelessness
Today, the Trump Administration began to dismantle the ineffective and costly Housing First homelessness policies, which have caused the country’s homeless problem to become even worse. The Obama-era policy resulted in a record-breaking 770,000 people to suffer on our streets during the last year of the Biden Administration. In Washington state, homelessness rose 78% since...
King County homelessness increases as politicians become wealthy
King County homelessness increases as politicians become wealthy
The number of homeless individuals in King County has risen again. The suffering grows in encampments, vacant buildings, and in urban green spaces, despite billions of taxpayer dollars being spent on building large housing bureaucracies at multiple levels of government. While those in charge of our region’s failed homeless strategy have become very wealthy, more...
ChangeWA is your source for exposing the costly Sound Transit debacle
ChangeWA is your source for exposing the costly Sound Transit debacle
On May 10, Sound Transit went all out in its promotion for the opening of its new light rail train stations in Redmond. The many expensive public relations firms which Sound Transit retains, lined up politicians and media celebrities to speak, music acts to entertain, food trucks to feed the crowd, activities to entertain...
Should the Sound Transit Board be elected by voters?
Should the Sound Transit Board be elected by voters?
After the 18-member Sound Transit Board of Directors unanimously approved former King County Executive Dow Constantine at the end of March to become its new CEO (a move which will cost taxpayers more than $6 million), many residents have asked the questions, who is on the board and who are they accountable to? Sound...