SEATTLE (AP) — Elected leaders and people who’ve experienced homelessness from Seattle and its suburbs have chosen the region’s first leader of the region’s homelessness response. The Seattle Times reports the governing board of the authority offered the job to Marc Dones, a policy strategist and activist based in Ohio. Dones accepted the position Thursday and will officially start April 26. It’s a key step to setting up the Regional Homelessness Authority, which is supposed to declutter and depoliticize King County’s messy homelessness response, which has never had one clear decision-maker.
Seattle region hires first head of homelessness authority
