Seattle's homeless emergency episode 2: SHARE/WHEEL The homeless mafia

Mainestategop ^ | Brian Ball and Maurice Newhope

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Shocking isn't it? Tent cities, refugee camps, they are all over America but in Seattle they are considered the norm. Today as of the writing of this article, one such tent city has been erected over Seattle city hall. It is illegally established and yet city hall not only tolerates it but is using taxpayer funds to promote it. They have but one demand. GIMME! GIMME! GIMME!

The Tent city, dubbed Tent City 6 is run by two organizations of militant homeless bums called SHARE/WHEEL. Share stands for Seattle Housing and Resource effort. Wheel stands for Women's Housing, Equality and Enhancement League. Share is the main shelter program while wheel is considered the militant feminist branch of SHARE. It is made up of feminists, gay LGBT activists and another leftist and militant group based in Israel called Women in Black. More on them in another episode.

Members of the New England Alliance for Liberty and Freemarkets from the state of New Hampshire including yours truly spent several months living in Share/wheel under assumed names. It was easy since they usually do not require ID cards to stay there. Only a few of the shelters do background checks and only after massive public pressure by the community. 

Maurice NewHope, a veteran of the freestate movement including NEALFM stayed for almost a year in both the indoor shelters prior to their closing and in two of the tent cities in 2015 until February, a month prior to Share's closure due to lack of funds and the start of TC6 and the current debacle.






The SHARE housing Co-op was started in the 1990s for well... Much of the reason they exist now, Seattle's growing homeless problem but rather than examine the true roots of the problem such as the lack of free markets, skyrocketing taxes and fees which lead to even more skyrocketing housing costs, SHARE and its feminist counter part WHEEL attack free markets and attack capitalism while embracing a hopeless socialist worldview that doesn't work and contributes to homelessness.

What is sadder about this is that the organization was founded not on government hand outs but was founded as a private initiative by responsible men and women who experienced homelessness. Men and women who were going through a tough time either brought on by addiction or wrong choices or by economic catastrophes created by the Democrats. They did not stick their hands out to the govenrment but used their own initiative.

To top it up they asked for help by local churches to house needy individuals. It was not easy not only due to zoning laws but by skepticism by the community as well. But they managed to set up shelters in churches and went back to the olden days. These were not your average homeless. At the time they weren't drug addicted bums or crazies but men and women who worked and were limited by the cost of housing or some other minor barrier. They convinced the churches that they were earnest and they paid some of their money which they pooled together to pay rent and pay for food and other needs.

Of course Seattle residents worshiped the government and are not happy that these people work independently from failed government. These people, many of them employed, people just trying to get on their feet broke a cardinal rule among liberals, always trust the government for help no matter what. That lead to attacks against SHARE's credibility and the belief that they weren't doing enough to help.

Well there were shortcomings then but liberals don't need to worry now. The organization's popularity led to an influx of homeless, many from around the nation, the kind that did not want to work and the kind that wanted to drink and puke and loaf off at taxpayer expense. Later on SHARE did receive taxes from the government but poor money management and a conflict of trust lead to its loss.

Perhaps they shouldn't have trusted the government after all... I mean banks in this country used to do fine helping us with problems with banking up until they got 800 billion from Uncle Sam. What's good for the banksters is good for Share gangsters...

Share has not only survived by government handouts but thanks to handouts from major charities. SHARE/WHEEL's biggest givers were the United way and Catholic Charities. But it has been the government that has floated much of SHARE'S cost up until recently.

The root of Share's problem with the government is twofold: first, its the use of government's handouts to fund tent cities along with indoor shelters. Share's money is only supposed to fund indoor shelters why should we pay for a filthy tent city in the boondocks on a rainy day? The second problem is a lack of trust that has been caused by fracturing from ex Share/Wheel members who are distrustful of Share/wheel's staff.

Many of them view staff as incompetent and the few there that are conservative and libertarian resent Share/Wheel's support for leftist causes. It has even been alleged that guests of SHARE shelters have been forced to participate in left wing causes and protests within the city of seattle. This includes support for occupy Wallstreet, The transit Riders Union(A corrupt bus driver/rider union that helps protect crooked and mean bus drivers that make New York's communist bus system and public sector unions pale by comparison!)The Anti-war movement including ANSWER, the SEIU(Another crooked public service union that needs no intro)The black lives matter movement, and recently groups that are hostile towards Donald Trump.

As mentioned, not all of SHARE/WHEEL share's their sympathy of the far left and that many have been required to participate in left wing causes they do not agree with have made many oppose SHARE/WHEEL.

One organization that has worked with SHARE/WHEEL in the past and has broken off completely from them is the Aloha Inn, an independent transitional living apartment within an old motel that was built by SHARE and WHEEL. The staff and residents, fed up with their hijinks broke away and have distanced themselves from the organization. More on them and their courageous struggle to become an independent non-profit charity helping the needy in another episode.

I guess I should point out in addition to the two problems, a feeling that staff are not accountable, that they have been unscrupulous in the past, that they have embezzled money from funds and are over-paid. Still, it should be noted that they have undergone several audits including a surprise audit which found no substantiations in the allegations of embezellment. But at meetings dubbed red ink meetings, funding has not been managed properly.

For example, Share wheel spent over $3000 on coffee and thousands more on junk food items that SHARE participants could have paid for. Several large food banks including one at Pike Place Market and another huge one at the town of Ballard could also provide these things! The city of Seattle pays over $200 dollars to homeless people and another $200 in food stamps. Many also have jobs and receive SSI. They could pay for some of these things themselves...

TENT CITY HELL

 Lets look at the main reason for Share's loss of funding, the usage of funds not to create safe warm indoor shelters but to fund and promote filthy, nasty, dangerous, outdoor camps or tent cities in dangerous neighborhoods in cold wet climates.

The Tent city movement according to its proponents has at its base some measure of care and the need of being together for safety and security. The proponents say that if indoor shelters are not possible (which they aren't thanks to big government failure)  why not use public land to build tent cities for people to congregate together for safety?

On paper it sounds nice but in reality it isn't. Take it from me and my associates including Maurice Newhope. These tent cities, although supervised by a private organization are very little removed from tent cities in other cities including the most notorious of all, the Jungle, a large dangerous tent city outside Seattle located of I-5 where rape, murder, assault, drug use and arson are very commonplace.

These tent cities are not always safe. They are not inviting either. These places are full of dangers, they are filthy and they are outside in cold, wet and uncomfortable environments. Tent cities are also unsanitary. A common mishap at Tent city is a full overflowing portable potty system and Honey Bucket often times is not timely in servicing them.  Even when in service, they are rarely used. Residents of tent city often urinate and deficate in trees, bushes, near buildings often in public view. Witnesses have also reported drug use and sex acts as well.

The tent city system is a failure in that it provides inferior shelter while the transient awaits available housing from the government. This wait is painfully long, made even worse by the lack of housing, corrupt government filching money for housing and that they favor undesirable groups such as Illegal aliens, teenage mothers with litters of bastard kids from multiple sex partners and people who are generally lazy and wont get off their duff, move to Texas and get a job while many who can't make that journey or can't work due to age or disability are left to suffer.

The government doesn't care about the well being of others, only itself. History has proven that time and time again. Tent cities only reflect that lack of care and the failure of socialism. Government services and programs exist only to exploit the tax payer and assist the government workers who with help from unions pocket taxpayer money and either give the needy false assurances that everything that can be done is being done or that they should go kick rocks.

If Seattle were to fund tent cities it would lower the standards drastically and make it even more acceptable for society to snub the needy. Some would argue that they should be thankful to have anyplace to stay, but anyplace other than their own place is no place at all especially a tent in a freezing cold wet and damp city run by a failed system and unscrupulous workers. No one should be thankful for such an undignified and unchristian lack of hospitality run by a government that is supposed to care for everyone. One must never thank the government for its failure or for its low standards.

If taxes were used to subsidize and promote tent cities, it would drastically lower standards in America and lead to a disaster for the truly needy, especially those who are forced on government assistance by the government and unscrupulous individuals for the purpose of abuse and/or exploitation. Eventually cities all around the country would divert funding from indoor shelters to filthy unsanitary dangerous tent cities. They need to fund indoor shelters and things to get them off the streets into their own homes and their own jobs.

Of course if it were up to me, there would be no taxation or regulation so churches would take over and provide indoor space for the homeless and jobs would be easier to get thanks to deregulation and having all the illegal aliens sent away. But in this situation, a message needs to be sent, no money for lower standards. Instead raise the standards.

City Hall got it right. Do not fund these tent cities. If people want them, let the private charities help them like they've been doing. Fund the indoor shelters instead, make sure also that these poor wretched outcasts are getting help and that they are receiving aid.

I don't know if I mentioned this to any of you or not but many of SHARE's residents receive no case management or are even on housing. It turns out as I and Maurice found, many have stayed at SHARE for over a decade with some coming and going with the seasons. Spring and Summer and a brief autumn stay in Seattle SHARE, then south for the winter in California or Florida! Others just don't care.

What Seattle city hall must do...
 Those of you who have read my blog for sometime know that I am against taxation and government programs. Mainly because I have been on welfare in my youth and I have known people who have been screwed by the system. I have also lived in Maine, the armpit of the country and one of the most taxed and liberal states there is. But Seattle and the state of Washington have made it difficult for housing alternatives and indoor shelters to exist as well as stopping the creation of affordable housing for low income residents.

Most of all, as city hall administrators have pointed out, they have no where else to go.

So... What to do? There is a solution, an easy solution one that is obvious, practical and down to earth, give SHARE/WHEEL the funding to operate their indoor shelters with strings attached. Among those strings, regular audits, to ensure quality have third parties look into Share practices, public exposure of practices by staff and the shelters and most of all, no funds for filthy tent cities. ONLY INDOOR SHELTERS

Finally, the other string that needs to be attatched is this... All SHARE participants must receive case management and be enrolled in housing. If they are not, they wont be allowed into SHARE. That is the one thing that must happen before SHARE gets any money from the government. There needs to be results!

There'll be more on that in another episode. Next up, we'll take you inside the beast with a testimony written by our very own Maurice Newhope, who spent almost a year in these shelters and tents in SHARE/WHEEL, participated in meetings and operations within share as well as working in protests with affiliates SHARE was involved with.

Well also confront city hall and make them give Share an ultimatum, PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

THAT'S NEXT TIME...
 

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Two other people and myself, not including Maurice went there for a couple of weeks in February last. It was hell on earth. Some of these people are good responsible individuals, others are lazy and don't care.

They have a list of bars and permanent shelter bars for people ranging from a brawl that took place in one of the church shelters, another had people having sex in the church building, stealing from the church and from staff, people being banned for hustling and prostituting ETC.

The three worst of these church shelters are Woodland Park Methodist church, AKA Budweiser Park AKA Milwaukee's best church. because of the bars in the neighborhood and drunks who stay there. The Bunkhouse, AKA the crackvhouse which is in Rainier Beach, the hood, and finally University Lutheran. AKA ULU, AKA, USCREW. Its an all women's shelter. Back in 10 and 11 you had prostitution and hustling there. Now of course you have some of the filthiest craziest bag ladies in the whole country there.

My God... What a nightmare. No wonder Seattle doesn't want to fund them but hey! They want in on it and these people have no where else to go.

So if they are serious about getting funding, give them an ultimatum and get to work getting these people unscrewed up.

I am against welfare and taxation but Seattle isn't and since they want money and since Seattle is intentionally supporting the illegal camp out at city hall and wants in on the scheme, might as well as let them have it. But strings MUST BE ATTATCHED, they must have case managers and they must be in whatever treatment is neccesary to get housing. Share Staff need to be monitored by both the city and a third party. NO MORE FUNDING LOAFERS NO MORE CRAP BY THE STAFF.

[petercooper]

Sucks to be that homeowner in the 2nd pic.

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Tell that to the people of Bellevue. Maurice told me that when tent city 4 went there years back, they had all kinds of crap come into the neighborhood. There were burglaries, drugs, gang activity, people screaming, raving and yelling at 2 in the morning, this is supposed to be a suburb where people moved there for the intent of getting away from that madness. And here it came into these suburbs.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The media has completely ignored the homeless explosion under Obola.

The minute Donald Trump takes office they will suddenly “discover” the homeless explosion and blame it on Trump.

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Not if we have anything to do about it. I for one am going to spend the rest of the election campaign reminding people of the mess Trump has to clean up when he is elected.

Under Obama we have had it worse than when Bush was in charge. BELIEVE ME I KNOW!! I DIDN'T HAVE SO MANY FRIEND OF MINE HOMELESS OR JOBLESS WHEN W RULED THE FREE WORLD!

We have got to keep it up! This is Obama's fault!

As I said on this forum, my blog and elsewhere, all poverty, homelessness, joblessness, ETC is caused by the government. Its all their fault! Government is always at the root of it. Its not the homeless fault, its not the poor's fault its the government's fault for promoting a cheating, destructive welfare state funded through extortion, unfair taxation and the pilfering of job creators.

the Democrats say they all want jobs but then they raise taxes, regulate, and soak the producers of this country and we wonder why this is a problem!

ENOUGH! This election year and thereafter we need to shout it from the housetops, BLAME OBAMA! BLAME THE GOVERNMENT!

[Steely Tom]

The minute Donald Trump takes office they will suddenly “discover” the homeless explosion and blame it on Trump.

Oh, undoubtedly.

Difference here is, Trump will know how to handle those stories.

In fact, having seen the way he operates, I won't be surprised if he does something pre-emptively to take that issue off the table.

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Heh heh heh...

He'll be doing quite a bit believe me. The leftist media are gonna have a lot to scream about when that happens. LOL!

[LydiaLong]

Homelessness doesn’t usually occur because people can’t find a job. It happens because of substance abuse.

[datura]

Thank you for posting and for all of your work.

God Bless.

Every time is get off I-5 near the international district I see that tent city, and am thankful to live in Skagit County. I lived in Pierce for almost 25 years, and was involved with the battles at Hilltop to a small degree, and it is nice to see that Tacoma has really cleaned up.

Given the communist bent of King County, I fear that things will get much worse there before any real improvement takes place.

[arthurus]

It happens because of substance abuse. which makes it hard to find a job or to keep one.

[Seruzawa]

Leftwing Wacko Seattleans deserve what happens to them. The city is very very lefty with guncontrollers galore. I have absolutely not one bit of sympathy. You make your bed, you sleep in it.

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I see some compassionate liberals at the periphery.

ML/NJ

[RetiredTexasVet]

All right. If the government unions can rape and loot, then I’m sure that the homeless mafia has that same right (although they should unionize to make it official).

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THey haven’t quite gotten there but the Transit riders Union, SEIU and others back them and in exchange require guests to participate in their action protests. Its a mutual union with public service unions.

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It happens because of substance abuse. which makes it hard to find a job or to keep one.

To be fair, not all the homeless are addicts or psychos. I actually have a lot of friends who are homeless and like me very conservative. You can usually tell the difference between undeserving beggars and deserving beggars by their political views.

there were however lots of drunks though. Maurice told me that when he stayed at Woodland park, the guy who ran the shelter there was an old racist Dutch Immigrant who would always show up drunk, singing dutch drinking songs and then he'd scream things like that the singer Gino Vanneli was a K**e or call the share supervisor who kept an eye on things the n-word.

They allowed this travesty to the human race (I mean even the Netherlands doesn't want this guy! HOLY COW!) to continue his antics until he was arrested for harassing women at the bus stop. That was when they finally put him out for good.

His replacements I am told were also drunk. He was caught by the pastor drinking beer out in the parking lot and forced to leave. They closed the place down for a month after-wards then reopened it only to have another guy get drunk and try and rape women who were staying upstairs.

Only Bunkhouse nights was worse than Woodland Park.

When I stayed at TC-4 last February, we had loads of Drama including a couple of tweaks who tore that place apart.

Yeah its easy to tell who put themselves there and who Obama put there.

My advise to those who are genuine, save your money and move to Texas and get a job. You'll never get one in Seattle now that they are taxing jobs at businesses for bus driver salaries.

[ronnie raygun]

Trump, We have jobs we have work for you! no response.............I rest my case