Posted on 06/09/2026 12:00:40 PM PDT by Libloather
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, about the size of a jail cell 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 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.”
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I saw a man on the street in Maine. When asked about Platner, the idiot said: Vote blue no matter who.
Seattle is on that program.
libs would freak out if the Trump admin set this up for illegal detainees.
Seattle so deserves her.
RE: Tiny houses....
Now that Katie Porter lost so many pounds on her weight reduction injections she could get at least part of her body into one of them.
She, like Tim Walz and JB Pritzker have really lost weight.
You have to house the illegals somewhere.
They seem fine to me but they should be very, very, very, much cheaper.
The mayor is the type of whom people say they have inner good looks within them.
Lewis Grizzard wrote in one of his books that leftists make a big deal of phony statements about Meryl Streep that she’s beautiful and really good looking. “The honest truth is, she is a real dog.”
Where will they park their shopping carts ?
Vienna, VA and route 29 in Centreville are rumored to have groups of tiny houses/cottages at one time. Called Midgetville. Probably as real as the Bunny Man.
1. 10 by 7 is a room, not a home.
2. What the homeless need is mental health services and/or drug rehab services, in mandatory forms, in an attempt that they can be job-holding self-supporting citizens again. They don’t need better places to park their butts while their mental health and drug addiction needs get no MANDATORY attention.
Most cities and towns have a minimum square foot requirement for a single dwelling. It’s usually larger than 900 square feet. How so, then?
This will go down in history as one of the dumbest ideas a liberal, big govt idiot ever attempted.
South Carolina has a code. No woman leaves the house without brushed hair, lipstick, blush, undergarments, and a smile.
Seattle, is 0 for 5.
“””The tiny units — barely bigger than a portable toilet, about the size of a jail cell and equipped with just a single bed and desk — cost $16,000”””
70 square feet costing $16,000!!!!!
I wonder how much the contractor had to donate to the Democrats to get such a lucrative contract?
A POW style camp would work best
228 + a square foot
[“””The tiny units — barely bigger than a portable toilet, about the size of a jail cell and equipped with just a single bed and desk — cost $16,000”””]
WOW 😮😮
That looks more like $2500-$3000 at the most
I dont see what the problem is here. KAren Bass had this brilliant idea to to give meth addicts free dental care. Makes perfect sense, right...if you’re a brainless, crooked, incompetent, liberal democrat!
$16K for a medium-size garden shed? Wish I’d got the contract.
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