How much do you think a nonprofit can spend to find permanent housing for a homeless person in Seattle?

If you guessed over $84,000, you win a prize. Not a big prize because the taxpayers of Seattle blew all their money on referring 51 homeless people to welfare agencies in the span of two years. 

For perspective, @SalvationArmyUS's Street Level team in King County houses people for just over $2,000 per person. https://t.co/RiOcLMDcZH

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That $84,000 is not the total cost of housing those 51 people--that's just the cut that the nonprofit We Deliver Care gets. Other funds from the city and similar nonprofits are kicked in on top of the more than $4 million We Deliver Care has been given over the past couple of years. 

Seattle City Council members were quite happy with the nonprofit, they said, despite the fact that the region they are focused on is riddled with homeless people who routinely commit crimes. The Mcdonald's in the area is referred to as "McStabby's" because there is so much violence there. 

(The Center Square) – A nonprofit organization working to address Seattle’s notorious street’s homelessness and drug problem is requesting over $2 million in funding to continue its work on the four-block corridor next year.

We Deliver Care is a safety company founded in 2020 that focuses on nonviolent de-escalation, through safety ambassadors in the community as an alternative to police. It was contracted to support the efforts of the city, the Downtown Seattle Association and the King County Regional Homeless Authority to restore downtown Seattle’s community through the Third Avenue Project (TAP).

There is a prominent presence of homelessness, crime, and public drug use on 3rd Avenue between Sewart and University Street in Seattle’s Downtown area. 

We Deliver Care managed to spend over $1 million per BLOCK failing to get homeless people into housing. That's really impressive if you think about it. I promise you I, too, could fail this badly and do it for less money. 

Seattle City Councilmember Tammy Morales asked why the rate of encountered people accepting shelter was so low. We Deliver Care COO Tabatha Davis blamed the housing availability issue in the Seattle area.

“There’s a shortage of housing so that’s really why that number is low,” Davis said in the House and Human Services Committee meeting on Wednesday. 

Davis added that ambassadors can make referrals for the homeless people, but when shelter and supportive housing providers are booked, the referred people join a waitlist for an extended period of time.

Out of the 116 people referred to shelter providers, 36 have been moved into permanent housing through the King County Regional Homelessness Authority’s Coordinated Entry process and 15 from CoLEAD transitional housing.

Did you catch that? We Deliver Care doesn't actually provide housing. It REFERS people to the county's Regional Homelessness Authority. 

All this for the low, low price of $84,000 a referral. 

However bad you think the government/nonprofit sector is you are grossly underestimating how corrupt and useless they are. These grants are simply a way to funnel money into the pockets of politically connected people, and whatever "cause" they are working on is simply an excuse to divert tax money to favored individuals. 

A similar example is San Francisco's tent city in front of City Hall. The city spends $60,000 per tent on providing "services." 

These days, being a Democrat is a license to steal.