Olympia Tiny Home Village Shockingly Requires More Taxpayer Money To Continue Looking Like Place Everyone Pretends Is Working

OLYMPIA — Local officials expressed concern this week after discovering that a government-funded homelessness project costing roughly $1.7 million per year is somehow still in need of more money.

Quince Street Village, a collection of tiny shelters in Olympia that houses about 100 people and bears a strong resemblance to a Tough Shed dealership after a three-day music festival, has been kept alive with a patchwork of state, county, city, nonprofit, and “please don’t ask too many questions” funding. Thurston County recently approved another $440,000 to keep the site operating through June, because apparently once a temporary government program exists, it becomes eligible for eternal life support.

Officials warned that without a long-term funding plan, the village could close and send roughly 100 people back into homelessness, which is exactly the kind of grim outcome taxpayers were told this expensive setup was supposed to prevent. The project now needs hundreds of thousands more for the next year, proving once again that in government math, “temporary housing solution” means “annual budget item until the sun burns out.”

Residents were assured the situation is being handled by the proper agencies, councils, coordinators, boards, subcommittees, and nonprofit partners, all of whom are working hard to determine how much more public money will be needed before the project can continue not solving the problem at its current pace.