Add The New York Post on Google Progressive Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is being ripped for unveiling a village of tiny homes being likened to porta-potties — with no rules stopping the homeless people who move in from doing drugs.
Wilson, 43, previewed 50 of the 70-square-foot units on Sunday — while readily conceding that she failed on her promise of having half of the 1,000 planned units ready in time for the World Cup, which starts Thursday.
The tiny units — barely bigger than a portable toilet and equipped with just a single bed and desk – cost $16,000 each to build, with those moving in sharing toilets and other facilities staffed 24/7.
The woke mayor said the units are for homeless people suffering “complex problems related to substance abuse” or mental disorders — but without forcing them to seek help or even stay off the drugs that got them there.
“The process of recovery is really complicated and difficult, and so, we’re not demanding that people be abstinent when they enter this village,” the democratic socialist mayor said, according to KOMO.
“The goal is to help people successfully move from homelessness toward stability and housing; that’s exactly what this site is designed to do,” she vowed, without citing evidence.
Local advocates quickly ripped the plan, with many saying it will only make drug use more widespread there, raising the risks for anyone living nearby.
Andrea Suarez, founder of the homeless-outreach organization We Heart Seattle, ridiculed the mayor’s program, saying that the drug use it will add to widespread crime as “the bodies are piling up.”
“Drugs aren’t free,” she told Fox News of the “deadly” drugs like “super meth and fentanyl” that “will be allowed on this property.”
“So what to people have to do to fuel their addiction? They have to porch-prowl, smash and grab, retail theft, syphon gas … prostitution,” she predicted, saying locals will have to “be on lockdown.”
“It’s very hard to get better and seek treatment when the fox is guarding the henhouse,” she said, saying that the addicts’ will be surrounded by dealers and fellow users. “It’s very hard to get sober when everything makes you actually more comfortable being a drug addict.”
Other critics were wary of the state the homes could fall into without rules stiopping them from becoming “overdose incubators.”
“Each one of these tiny houses will turn into a tiny outhouse. Good luck cleaning that human sewer up,” one naysayer fumed on X.
Another raged: “How much you willing to be that within a year, all those tiny homes will be torn down crack houses smelling like heroin laced urine.”
Another blasted: “Glad Katie could give drug dealers and criminals a home base for their crimes against the people of Seattle.”
“Dumb,” one critic slammed. “Now they just get to use drugs in those tiny homes. How about we get them off the drugs!!”
Wilson said an additional 25 sleeper units – which cost $16,000 each to build and are equipped with a single-bed and desk – will be installed at the Bayside Enhanced Shelter by the end June, with as many as 300 new pods expected citywide by summer’s end.
That still falls way short of her promise of 500 units in time for Seattle’s World Cup matches.
“Is it a failure not to have created 500 units by now? As long as there are thousands of people sleeping unsheltered on our streets, yes, we are failing,” the lefty mayor said defensively.
