Remember when non-profit homeless shelter network Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) announced last August that it would be forced to close 11 of its 15 homeless shelters due to a lack of funding from the city?

SHARE, which receives $300,000 annually from the city for its shelters, needed $50,000 more to meet new expenses, such as buying bus tickets for its clients so that they could get to the shelters. Members of SHARE even camped out on Mayor Mike McGinn and city councilmembers lawns to prove their point—but the city, hurting from a $56 million budget deficit, wasn't able to do anything immediately.

SHARE managed to avoid closing its shelters by raising $10,500 in donations. But today, Council Member Nick Licata announced that the Seattle City Council had allocated $100,000 to the Human Services Department, out of which $21,000 would go toward funding 270 single shelter beds at SHARE.

Licata says that his motivation for proposing this funding allocation "was to address the several years-long crisis funding bus tickets for SHARE members as well as addressing the increased costs other shelters experience.”

SHARE may not have received the full $50,000 it asked for, but something is better than nothing, especially with dozens of social service agencies facing an uncertain future due to state budget cuts right now. Other agencies which will receive money include Catholic Housing Services ($25,300), Compass Center ($14,600), The Salvation Army ($3,500), YWCA ($11.800), and DESC ($20,00).