This would be the second hotel and they should have been doing this instead of tearing them all down.

@1: Amazon supports Mary's Place. But we shouldn't count on the private sector to get involved in businesses which are not their core missions. As CM Sawant nicely put it:

"We have so much need in our community," Sawant said, "I'm just taken [aback] by how much debate there is on small amounts for very real problems that need to be solved."

She is absolutely correct. Seattle and King County should be looking at a program at least ten times the sizes discussed in this article, and to the state for much of that money. Maybe then our "homeless advocates" can finally admit what is completely (even brutally) obvious to anyone who ever interacts with any actual homeless persons in Seattle: our homeless issues are largely drug-addiction and mental-health issues, and stable housing is needed to treat those issues.

@1 in addition to the new Mary's Place facility, the Bezos Day 1 Fund supports a number of programs addressing homelessness, as well as preschool programs in underserved communities.

I know you were hoping this wasn't the case, but Bezos is actually doing a lot of good.

Just take the funding from the West Seattle and Magnolia bridges.

You can shave that much off by only having one car/truck lane each way and the rest being transit/bikes.

And restrict the car/truck lanes to zero emission vehicles only.

Of course the suburbs are weaseling out of paying their share for homeless housing. They know Seattle will continue to pick up the tab. And as a bonus, they won't actually have to put up with having any of the homeless people in their cities. It's hard not to feel like Seattle is being taken for a ride here.

@10 the suburbs don't get homeless people? I've had the "pleasure" of living next to a SHARE tent city in unincorporated KC; Seattle shoving their self-managed shit hole down to where the people don't even get to vote for mayor but have to live with all the consequences of Seattle's garbo city council.
Renton has had well-documented ongoing problems with the homeless men moved into Red Lion from the downtown Seattle shelter. Now that the Executive can neuter the Sheriff, I suspect we will be seeing a lot more of Seattle's dead-enders wind-up out in the 'burbs and related crime to skyrocket.