#1,634 - Seattle spends a Billion dollars on homelessness but its gotten worse!

The city of Seattle has spent nearly $1 billion on homelessness in more than a decade, and the number of unsheltered people continues to rise.

The city of Seattle’s Budget Office provided the adopted budget amount dating back to 2013 to KOMO News, which includes the amount spent on Human Services Department (HSD) contracts and the citywide spending on the department, including labor costs.

The total adds up to nearly $1 billion in the 11-year span.

Between 2013 and 2018, the city spent a minimum of $33.5 million on HSD contracts. After then-Mayor Ed Murray declared a homelessness state of emergency in 2015, the spending started to rise. By 2018, the citywide budget ballooned to $85.2 million. By 2021, that number had doubled to $166.48 million.

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