URGENT REQUEST FOR SHELTER FUNDING SUPPORT ON THE HEELS OF FEMA CUTS
Without shelter, people die. Our remembrance efforts profoundly inform our provision and advocacy for shelter. We—WHEEL and our partner organization SHARE—comprise and facilitate the largest, most cost-effective shelter network in the region. We’re deeply fearful about our ability to continue operating our Tent Cities & Shelters on the heels of a recent, shocking, unwarranted Federal Funding Cut to emergency shelter providers in King County, including the bare-bones SHARE/WHEEL network: https://crosscut.com/2019/08/
FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has “calculated” that King County is doing too well economically to qualify for aid for our homelessness crisis through their EFSP emergency shelter grant program. This will impact many good and necessary emergency shelter providers in King County, but none more than SHARE/WHEEL, since we provide more shelter (indoor and outdoor) at a lower cost and slimmer margin than any other organization in the County. Our SHARE Shelter Board partners have started a Go Fund Me Campaign to help fill the gap—please contribute and share this link! https://www.gofundme.com/f/