Finally got to hold my Kemper Freeman 2026 Courage Award. I dedicate it to our volunteers and educators on the streets who teach us that addiction is the monkey on the back of our service-resistant souls. Thank you, John Carlson and Kemper Development. @KVIJohnCarlson

Today men and women in recovery cleaned the St. Mark’s Cathedral Greenbelt removing needles, pipes, rotting furniture, and trash off an urban hiking trail. Many of them once lived in these greenbelts. Today they showed up to give back. Grateful for every one of them. Cleaning up trash saves lives. Thank you to Hope & Chance, Battlefield Addiction, and the JBLM Air Force volunteers who joined us. Where are the environmentalists? Voting matters.

Kids are unsafe in Seattle’s most prestigious park. This man Anthony has admitted to hanging out on this bench at Volunteer Park for years. He left his bag of Crystal Meth aka “ice” unattended near a children’s playground. Basic laws are not being enforced in Seattle, children are paying the price. @SeattleCouncil @MayorofSeattle @GovBobFerguson @SeattlePD @WAPolicyCenter @DiscoveryCWP @ChangeWash

We Heart Seattle hosted a packed room at the Art Love Salon on Friday. People from every background—different races and ethnicities, across the political spectrum, from every economic walk of life, showed up and stayed in the conversation. The room was loud in the best way. People didn’t want to stop talking. We made new friends and humanized our frenemies. What stood out was simple: everyone there cares about people and cares about Seattle. On homelessness, addiction, crime, and public safety, we still need to find real, life-saving common ground. Friday was a start. This video captures the evening. Watch: 👇🏼

This is deeply personal. For years we gave Michelle everything: case management, friendship, community, even restoring her stable housing. She still battles severe mental illness and keeps choosing the sidewalk tent. She says we abandoned her. We didn’t. Policymakers did. This is why good social workers burn out and quit. We have boundaries too. Compassionate intervention isn’t cruelty, it’s the only thing left. @MayorofSeattle @SeattleCouncil @SeattlePD What is your plan for the drug-addicted, mentally ill, service-resistant population? Enough is enough.

I'm curious as to why deep-pocket donors don't put pressure on Plymouth Housing to stop housing fentanyl dealers and handing out drug use paraphernalia. They run neo-sweep apartments where anything goes. No reciprocity of behaviors in exchange for free forever housing. People are carried out of their facilities in body bags, yet the wealthy empty their wallets for this organization instead of putting pressure on them to reform their policies. These policies kill people and amp up criminal behavior in every city where they are located across our region. If you went to their Seattle Dances gala on Saturday and gave them money, I ask why you don't put pressure on them to change their ways. They're killing people with their permissiveness and hurting our cities. Please help instead of just writing a check.

From a ground perspective we just are not seeing as many visible overdoses on the streets and in parks. Prevention is everything - Thank you @POTUS

A Mother and young Son give testimony that housing before treatment enabled his addiction for years. Listen to Sage explain first hand the failures of Housing First. Ultimately it was the higher power of God that set him free. It’s promising that @SecretaryTurner and @HUDgov are ensuring faith based organizations get their fair share of the budget and that housing with compulsory services be adopted by local municipalities. @KCPubHealth @MayorofSeattle @kcexec

Another random run in with a Mom and addicted Son who stopped to give me their testimony of Housing First. Christopher lives @PlymouthHousing and has been a volunteer for We Heart Seattle until the CEO banned me from recruiting more residents to come out with us. She proclaimed they were too vulnerable to volunteer 🙄 Listen to Christopher tell us that treatment before housing would be better. I wish Homeless, Inc. would stop suing the feds and start looking and listening to suffering addicts like Christopher and his heartbroken Mom. @HUDgov @MayorofSeattle @kcexec

A Mom with toddler awaits her drug dealer to let her in to a Plymouth Housing project. Tax Payer funded Plymouth on Stewart houses four major known drug dealers in Seattle. The rest of the residents “are drug addicted thieves” according to my trusted sources. Housing doesn’t end crime, addiction, or street loitering. @MayorofSeattle @kcexec @HUDgov