After head tax repealed, source of funding unclear for homeless housing

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's plan to add more funding for temporary homeless housing is heading to the full city council Monday.

But it's still unclear where that money will come from.

The plan called for adding hundreds of beds and expanding shelter capacity as well as a sale of city land.

We've been asking the mayor's office since part of this was to be funded by the head tax, what will happen to the plan?

Under the proposed plan that will be discussed at both a briefing at 9:30 a.m. and the full Seattle City Council at 2 p.m., the city would expand shelter capacity by 25 percent and add 500 beds.

The city was to sell a piece of land in South Lake Union to help get funds, but it also relied on millions that would have been raised by the now-repealed head tax.

We asked the mayor last month if the head tax was repealed, where would the money come from?

Some beds would be added at the Seattle City Hall shelter and others would have been in new tiny house villages.

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