Seattle needs to -completely- separate the homeless dilemma from the hands of ALL government agencies. The money just goes down some rat-hole and/or to padding their worthless existence after they do some self-promoting hand-waving. FAIL FAIL FAIL.
Good things don’t happen, just more stalling. For decades. Take it away from the City of Stall.
Helsinki is the same size, and had its program going great guns 5-10 years ago … -big- reductions by then. It starts with a home. A stable place to get your life together.