Despite spending over $1.1 million for each of the only 126 people who transitioned out of homelessness, Washington Democrat Governor Jay Inslee claimed that his initiative for removing encampments from state land and getting people into housing requires more money in order to continue.

Inslee has failed to adequately address the state’s homeless crisis, which has grown exponentially during his more than a decade in office.

On Friday, during a photo op at a tiny home village in Olympia, Inslee touted his Rights of Way Safety Initiative (ROW), a program that since last summer has attempted to remove encampments from state land, including from the sides of freeways, and transition the residents into housing.

Despite already spending an astronomical $143 million on the project, Inslee claimed that the program needed more money, telling KOMO News during Friday’s photo op, “We will need the Legislature, in January, to appropriate more funding because we’re out of funding for the Right of Way Initiative right now. We’ll need the legislature in January to step up to increase funding so we can continue the progress we’re making.”

[$143M to move almost 1100 people out of camps but only 126 people accepted, which works out to $1,137,256 per person. Lefty #mathz strikes again. ~ Beege]