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Ben Carson has given himself the authority to increase homelessness

Columnist Click to view larger Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development has been busy this week. He’s literally been on tour, like an author promoting a book, going around the country visiting homeless services and speaking to builders’ ...

May 2nd, 2018 - Dr. Wes Browning
Suddenly we’re enforcing car-camping laws older than the Smith Tower

Real Change columnist Click to view larger The big local news of the week has me lost. A judge ruled the city charged a man way too much to get his impounded truck back after they found out he had been living in it. And that he should get his truck back. ...

March 14th, 2018 - Dr. Wes Browning
Apparently hygiene services and shelter aren’t doing enough to satisfy our overlords

Hello. My name is Wes Browning, and I have an anger management problem. And the city of Seattle is not helping. When former-Mayor Ed Murray was still our king, the city required bids from homeless service providers for city funding starting in 2018. The m ...

December 6th, 2017 - Dr. Wes Browning
Get outside and eat your cold ravioli until your big house is ready

Click to view larger Dr. Wes Browning The debate about whether homeless people should get to live in tiny houses now before their permanent big houses are ready continues, stirred by Mayor Ed Murray’s Homeless Czar from the Obama era, Barbara Poppe. I can ...

March 29th, 2017 - Dr. Wes Browning
Sending homeless people to an island won’t solve the problem of garish colored tents

Click to view larger Dr. Wes Browning I’m not a journalist and neither is John Curley. But it is an actual fact that I can report that John Curley pretended to support a stupid idea to put all of Seattle’s homeless people on an island in the San Juans or ...

September 7th, 2016 - Dr. Wes Browning