Thirty employees reportedly earned six-figure salaries, with Dones topping the list as he earned nearly $250,000 annually in his role as CEO.
operates or funds 19 tiny house villages scattered across Washington state — in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Skyway, and Bellingham. Each village has hygiene facilities, utility access, and access to volunteers, community groups, non-profits, faith organizations, businesses, rotary clubs, and schools. These 19 villages support approximately 1,600 people annually.
These issues hung over the KCRHA since its inception, as the previous year, in 2022, the same issues with on-time payments occurred. The Authority claimed the delays were just a casualty of growing pains as it was busy consolidating hundreds of contracts from both the City of Seattle and King County while trying to hire enough staff. But now, in 2023, with the staff expanded by nearly 100 employees and the same issues still transpiring, contractors have grown weary of KCRHA.
Additionally, the federal government had to get involved with how the Homeless Authority was conducting its housing processes. While Coordinated Entry — a process that ranked the thousands of homeless people on health conditions, age, race, gender identity, pregnancy status, and behavioral health risks and awarded beds or shelters accordingly — was approved by the federal government, the Homeless Authority’s secondary process of filling available beds made the U.S.
Norm Suchar, director of the Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — and author of the letter sent to KCRHA — stated the Authority also bypassed federal housing requirements and potentially incentivized housing providers to pick the people who were easiest to serve, according to The Seattle Times.
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