King County Regional Homelessness Authority faces calls to shut down after $13 million goes unaccounted for

Two councilmembers are now drafting companion resolutions to formally dissolve the King County Regional Homelessness Authority.

SEATTLE — King County and Seattle elected officials are pushing to dismantle the Regional Homelessness Authority after a new audit found the agency cannot account for $13 million in public funds. Elected leaders call it the latest in a string of financial and operational failures since the agency’s founding in 2019.

King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski said the audit’s findings raised serious concerns, even without a definitive finding of wrongdoing.

“The state of the record keeping is apparently so bad that while they didn’t find fraud, they couldn’t assure

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