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News & ArtsMonday, August 2, 2010
City Homelessness Group Finally Meets Mayor
Posted by Riya Bhattacharjee on Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:55 PM
After showing up with a mob of 25 people in the lobby in front of the mayor's office without appointment, homeless advocacy group Seattle Housing And Resource Effort (SHARE) finally met with Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn today at City Hall. The group has been pleading for a meeting since January.
After McGinn briefly greeted the group, mayor's chief of staff Julie McCoy and director of policy and affairs Ethan Raup agreed to sit down with the mob, says SHARE spokeswoman Revel Smith. "It was an affable 40 minute meeting, but there is no indication, yet, of what the city is going to do," Smith said.
SHARE told city officials that they needed emergency funds to cover a $50,000 deficit which would take care of debts, buy bus tickets for homeless people to travel to and from shelters, and maintain 11 of the shelters that had been slated for closure.
"For the past two years we have been in a crisis," Thomas said. "We have been cropping and saving and depending on donations. We are running a $17,000 deficit on bus tickets alone." Thomas said that although the talks had been positive, the mayor's staff had indicated that they were not in a position to make any decisions.
SHARE, which contracts with the City of Seattle to provide bus tickets and services for the homeless, announced Saturday that it will be forced to close 11 of its 15 shelters Thursday due to a lack of city funds. Four hundred people will be out on the streets without a place to sleep at night if that happens. SHARE member Jerry Thomas said that the group had originally gone to the Municipal Tower to meet with the new Director of Human Services Dannette Smith, but was informed that she was away for two weeks on personal leave. Smith's assistant told the group to talk to the mayor for emergency funds.
McGinn spokesperson Aaron Pickus avoided any meaningful comment, saying that the mayor's office "is considering next steps to best serve the homeless community in Seattle."
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SHARE needs to shut down and the city needs to give that 300K to somebody who will run it right and not use homeless people as pawns.
$45 worth of bus tickets ($1.50 per ticket total of 30 tickets) for sale for $20. That's more than 50% off your bus ride and there is no expiration date.....Cash only please. Thank you.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/for/18…
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Disliking SHARE =/= being anti-homeless. In fact the bullshit way they foster that impression is one of the big reasons people don't like them.
Fuck SHARE, the homeless deserve better.
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DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!
you don t like SHARE and self management, you'd better be prepared to pay the poverty pimps...and btw, SHARE has no executive director making a six figure salary staff makes minimum wage or works for housing!
So maybe SHARE is a terrible organization but if you want someone else to take over (and they tried to do it way back, no one was willing to work for that cheap) be ready to shed your $$
(it is called Bed Night)
SHARE: $2.53 per night
ST MARTIN DE PORRES: $.5.23 per night
COMPASS CENTER MEN"S SHELER: $11.74 per night
SALVATION ARMY GETHERSMANE MEN''S SHELTER: $ 14.36 per night
COMPASS CENTER FIRST METHODIST CHURCH: $15.49 per night
DESC or better known as Doesn't Everyone Smoke Crack: $17.66 per night
SACRED HEART: $22.90 per night
COMPASS CENTER HAMMONF HOUSE FOR WOMEN: 24.69 per night
Salary Range
Habitat For Humanity $40,000 - $73,788
YMCA $49,132 - $81,792
American Red Cross $38,598 - $77,419
Boys and Girls Clubs of America $30,359 - $62,349
United Way $40,695 - $82,639
SHARE Staff Salary: 1200 a month!
so how is SHARE a bad organization?
None of your statistics demonstrate why SHARE refuses to operate within its means and not pull stunts like this. If they closed one shelter a year ago, where would they be? Why do they insist on waiting until they're in a crisis and have to close almost all of their shelters?
And your DESC link @20 shows that most positions pay $10-$15 an hour. The only position that earns $30 an hour is the "Major Gifts Officer." Even the nurses don't make more than $21/hour.
Do you also care to demonstrate those various organizations' successes or failures in helping the homeless get off the street permanently, or is that going to be another one of your lies of omission?
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