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The Academic
For a scientist devoted to social justice, where does science end and advocacy begin? Does the scientist have a right to shape her study results to support a cause she knows to be worthy? Universities take money from corporations and military all the time to fund research that fuels big business and war. Why can’t an individual, socially conscious academic do a similar good turn for her comrades fighting the war on poverty? Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged counter-recruiting, Hagopian, homelessness, School of Public Health, Scott Morrow, SHARE, University of Washington
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Boss Man
November 14, 2018 ~ These documents were sent to me by an inside source at the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE). SHARE runs a network of more than a dozen homeless shelter facilities around Seattle and King County. These … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, General, SHARE, Tent City
Tagged corruption, Peggy Hotes, Scott Morrow, SHARE, Tent City 3
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Charade: Homeless camps and the abuse of public process
September 8, 2018 ~ The biggest gripe a citizen can have is that their government doesn’t listen to them, and that gripe has never been more on-point than when it comes to transients and drug addicts camping in Seattle parks … Continue reading
Letter from the ‘hood: No more homeless camps here, please!
August 11, 2018 ~ Camp Second Chance is a sprawling cluster of tents and shacks located on Myers Way South, in the Highland Park neighborhood of southwest Seattle, just inside the Seattle city line. The camp popped up in the summer … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Squatters
Tagged Camp Second Chance, Highland Park Action Committee, Highland Park Washington, SHARE
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The Seattle Head Tax: What we’ve been missing
June 3, 2018 ~ Everyone’s talking about the Head Tax, about how much money it would raise, about how the money will be spent (or misspent), about how it might affect business… Almost no one’s talking about who it was … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, General, Homelessness
Tagged affordable housing, corruption, SHARE
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Tent Cities: Not a way out but a way to HANG out
February 8, 2017 Except for the misleading headline, this article from Pacific Standard Magazine is a more or less honest view of a SHARE-run tent city. Based on my own experiences, I can say that the interview subjects are a … Continue reading
Posted in Homelessness, SHARE, Tent City
Tagged LIHI, malingering, Pacific Standard Magazine, SHARE, Tent City 3
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Audit This! ~ Bringing Seattle’s Human Services Department to heel
December 7, 2016 The Seattle Human Services Department (HSD) dispenses city, state, and federal money to a hundred-odd contractors that provide various services to Seattle’s poor and homeless. HSD has regulations requiring the contractors to track and submit financial tracking … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, SHARE
Tagged Seattle Human Services, SHARE, state auditor, Troy Kelley
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Anatomy of a Swindle: How a Rogue Non-profit Captured the Emerald City
September 13, 2016 The Set-up For four years I’ve been investigating a publicly supported non-profit homeless group in Seattle called SHARE. SHARE runs 14 indoor shelters around Seattle, for which it annually gets several hundred thousand dollars from Seattle’s Human … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, General, Homelessness, Media, Nickelsville, SHARE, Tent City
Tagged corruption, David G. Jones, Efren Agmata, HSD, LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute, Mayor Ed Murray, Peggy Hotes, Pete Holmes, Scott Morrow, Seattle City Auditor, Seattle City Council, Seattle Human Services Department, SHARE, Sharon Lee
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Why I’m voting ‘no’ on the Housing Levy
July 29, 2016 Seattle Proposition 1 is a tax levy on the August 2016 primary ballot for Seattle voters. The levy would double the total amount currently levied for “affordable housing.” See the King County Voter’s Guide description on this … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, General, Homelessness, Politics, SHARE
Tagged accountability, government waste, LIHI, sanctuary city, Scott Morrow, Seattle Affordable Housing Levy, SHARE, Sharon Lee, taxes
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No Strings Attached
June 18, 2016 A recent Facebook post from Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is at once a study in courage and a window onto the political nightmare that is homeless policy in Seattle. Murray is currently getting skewered by the church-lady left … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Politics, SHARE, Tent City
Tagged Ed Murray, LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute, Real Change Newspaper, Sally Bagshaw, SHARE, Tim Harris
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“Dear Scott . . .” Will SHARE ever fire Boss Morrow? Can they?
June 4, 2016 Today I got a nice surprise in my mailbox. It’s a letter from someone who claims to represent some two dozen Scott Morrow critics: disaffected homeless campers, SHARE insiders, volunteers. The letter is being circulated ahead of … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, SHARE
Tagged democracy, direct action, Power Lunch, Scott Morrow, SHARE
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Shocked!
May 21, 2106 The Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE), claims to have fired their “accountant,” Steven A. Isaacson, after TBQ broke a story on Isaacson’s lack of credentials ten days ago. (See The Accountant Who Wasn’t There). On May … Continue reading
Homeless Camps and Warrant Checks: Who’s minding the store?
May 16, 2016 Like hundreds of cities around the country, Sammamish, Washington has developed special regulations for organized homeless camps. And just like other cities, Sammamish has rules saying that if you run a homeless camp, you have to do “background … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, SHARE, Tent City
Tagged Guerrilla Mail, Mary Queen of Peace, meth, Perry Debell, public safey, Sam Roberson, Sammamish, SHARE, Shoreline, tent camps, warrant checks
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The Accountant Who Wasn’t There
May 11, 2016 Back Story: Gimme Shelter The Seattle House and Resource Effort (SHARE) gets around a million dollars in government grants and in-kind donations each year. They ostensibly use this money to shelter homeless people, which they do through a … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics, SHARE
Tagged accounting, fraud, homelessness, Scott Morrow, Seattle HSD, Seattle Human Services, SHARE, Steven A. Isaacson, tent camps, white collar crime
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The Not-So-Good Shepherd
RCW 36.01.290 “Authorizing religious organizations to host temporary encampments for homeless persons on property owned or controlled by a religious organization” –This statute was enacted by the Washington State Legislature in 2010. It grants churches the right to set up temporary … Continue reading
The Case of the Missing Homeless Camp
April 13, 2016 Do you see a homeless camp in this picture? –Yeah. Neither do I. So why was the landowner granted a two-year “transitional housing” property tax exemption on this pricey patch of real estate near downtown Seattle? Good question. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics, SHARE
Tagged Chris Koh, Coho Real Estate, corruption, fraud, homelessness, LIHI, property tax, Scott Morrow, SHARE, Sharon Lee
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Othello Village
February 29, 2016 Seattle’s newest “sanctioned” homeless encampment is about to open. This photo came to me through a neighborhood resident who said: “They are already moving in, right around the corner. The entire community just found out about it … Continue reading
Posted in Homelessness, Nickelsville, SHARE
Tagged encampments, Othello Village, Scott Morrow, SHARE, tiny houses
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Lisa Bright and Dark
Lisa Herbold is the presumptive new Seattle councilmember for my district. Her campaign platform is that she works for the little people (just like Kshama Sawant) and that she’s not for sale to corporations. She might not be for sale, … Continue reading
Getting High With A Little Help From His Friends: The Scott Morrow Story
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, the name Scott Morrow will be a familiar one. If you’re not a reader, Morrow is the Seattle man who founded and controls two Seattle-area homeless shelter organizations. His Rotund Eminence can regularly … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics
Tagged 1st Amendment, frank chopp, homelessness, LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Michael Reichert, Nick Licata, Nickelsville, religious freedom, Reverend Scott Olsen, Scott Morrow, Seattle Housing and Resource Effort, SHARE, Sharon Lee
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Homeless Camps: My Testimony to the King County Council (Part 2)
Mary Bourguignon Principal Legislative Analyst Lead, Government Accountability & Oversight Committee October 23, 2014 Dear Mary: Here’s another set of comments and information for the Council to review. Note: SHARE is an acronym for the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort, … Continue reading
Homeless Camps: My Testimony to the King County Council (Part 1)
The testimony below concerns a proposed King County, Washington Ordinance extending (with proposed modifications) county legislation governing homeless encampments, also known as “tent cities.” I have been following the operations of these camps for several years now and, with one … Continue reading
Death in a Homeless Camp
Originally published on October 14, 2014 Background: Tent City 4 is a large homeless encampment managed by a group known as the Seattle Housing And Resource Effort (SHARE). SHARE is a registered 501(c)3 charity that solicits funds from government and … Continue reading
The Schizophrenic Times: SHARE in the News
Three recent articles on SHARE’s Tent City 4 from the Seattle Times: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 ~ Sammamish OKs moratorium on homeless camps This article is supposed to be about the City of Sammamish’s decision to impose a moratorium on tent … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Politics
Tagged Alexa Vaughn, corporate media, mainstream media, Sammamish, Scott Morrow, seattle times, SHARE, TC4, Tent City 4
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Homeless, Inc. ~ Catholic Community Services
This page contains a discussion of a specific low-income housing provider business in Seattle. For the main page and introduction to this topic, see here: Homeless, Inc. Catholic Community Services of Western Washington Total Seattle HSD Budget for 2013: $1,513,453 … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Profiles
Tagged Catholic Community Services, CCS, executive compensation, homeless, Michael Reichert, non-profits, Scott Morrow, SHARE
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The Village Quixotic (or: How to avoid headaches by thinking with your tear ducts)
Some astute TBQ readers have been linking me stuff about Olympia’s new Nickelsville knock-off, a joint called “Quixote Village.” Here’s an extract from the 12/31/13 edition of the Olympian newspaper: The residents of Camp Quixote are no longer vagabonds. They … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, General, Politics
Tagged Daily Olympian, editorial bias, fraud, homeless, inc., Jill Severn, media bias, monica spain, Nickelsville, Quixote Village, SHARE
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Nickelsville: Finding a solution
I offer this recent guest editorial from the Seattle Times for your edification. The author, one Derek Low, is a student* in the MSW (Master of Social Work) and MPH (Master of Public Health) programs at the University of Washington: … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, General
Tagged Nickelsville, Peggy Hotes, pimps of poverty, Scott Morrow, SHARE
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