That’s the outcome Gavin Cooley, Rick Romero and Theresa Sanders believe the region can achieve if communities go all in on a plan to establish a regional authority to address homelessness, similar to the approach Seattle and King County have taken.
“The opportunity to get better really quickly is there if we work together,” Sanders said during the presentation last week.
The plan to establish a regional authority to manage homelessness comes weeks after officials closed Camp Hope, which just a year ago housed several of Spokane’s unhoused residents within blocks of Spokane’s East Central neighborhood.
Camp Hope started as a protest over a shortage of shelter beds. The state’s
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