Seattle's woke mayor just promised to end homelessness and remodeled a public bathroom to be gender-neutral.
A local volunteer went to check on the city's parks and found something the mayor hasn't mentioned once.
What she picked up next to the children's playground is about to make your blood boil.
Seattle Homeless Encampments Are Now Openly Dealing and Smoking Fentanyl in City Parks
Andrea Suarez has been cleaning Seattle's parks since 2020.
She founded We Heart Seattle, and she knows what $153 million in annual homelessness spending actually buys.
Last week, Suarez walked through Dr. Jose Rizal Park – three connected parks – and picked up several hundred pieces of drug foil in a single afternoon, in the off-leash dog area, near the children's playgrounds, near the memorials.
"You can just see the foil is like blowing down the sidewalks like autumn leaves," Suarez told Fox News Digital.
Each piece of foil is a fentanyl hit.
Many still had drugs rolled inside when she found them.
Her organization has documented hundreds of overdoses and poisoning cases – including infants and dogs.
King County now distributes a flyer on how to reverse an overdose in a dog.
"That's how bad it is," Suarez said. "It's how prevalent this is in our shared spaces."
Area stores sell the glass pipes used to smoke fentanyl for $6.
King County gives them out for free and calls it harm reduction.
King County Hands Out Free Fentanyl Pipes While Housing First Fails and Overdose Deaths Mount
Seattle spent $153.8 million on homelessness services in 2024 alone.
The result is fentanyl foil near the swing sets and a county government running vending machines stocked with naloxone, fentanyl test strips, condoms, and Plan B.
The metro area spends over $1 billion fighting homelessness annually – approaching $100,000 per homeless person – and the Heritage Foundation documented what every Seattle resident already knows: Housing First programs strip accountability requirements and produce no meaningful reduction in homelessness or addiction outcomes.
Washington State spent $143 million moving exactly 126 people out of homelessness – more than $1.1 million per person – and Democrat Governor Jay Inslee went back to the legislature asking for more.
Local radio host Ari Hoffman named the machine driving all of it: "They don't actually get you into treatment. They say, 'Here, let's give you foil, let us give you a pipe, let's give you whatever drug paraphernalia you want.' And because they are constantly fueling the people who are running Homeless, Inc., these nonprofit organizations are making excess six-figure salaries – there's no incentive for it to end."
Suarez posted video from inside the Interbay Village Tiny Home Community showing an empty unit that neighbors confirmed is routinely used for fentanyl.
Wilson's permanent supportive housing has no requirement to get clean.
"You're essentially housing somebody with a permanent drug addict's neighbor and likely their dealer," Suarez said.
There is no free, clean and sober housing anywhere in Seattle – not one unit.
Mayor Katie Wilson pushed the Seattle City Council to approve $5 million in new funding, tied to a larger $17.5 million plan to build 500 tiny homes by June, with a goal of doubling that by year's end.
The council approved it unanimously.
Fifth-generation Seattleite Tanya Woo, whose family arrived in 1887, has watched her neighborhood empty out.
"It used to be a vibrant community where people from all over the state would come and go shopping and eat and visit," Woo told Fox News Digital. "And now it's really empty."
Open Air Drug Use Killed Over 1000 People in King County and the Mayor Refused to Mention It
In her first State of the City address, Wilson never said the word fentanyl.
Andrea Suarez called it "bewildering."
The DEA counted more than 1,067 fentanyl deaths in King County in 2023 – a 47% jump from the prior year – with Seattle accounting for 57% of those deaths.
Wilson looked past all of it to talk about gender-neutral bathroom renovations.
She did make news in that address for one thing: America needs a "fundamental restructuring of our society and our economy," delivered by a self-described socialist who won Seattle's mayoral race by just over 2,000 votes.
Her plan is more housing, no accountability, and a price tag that grows every quarter.
The Heritage Foundation's sweep of Housing First programs nationally reached a blunt conclusion: despite billions in federal spending over five years, the unsheltered population grew by 20%, with California, Oregon, and Washington accounting for 61% of the nation's unsheltered homeless.
Seattle is not an outlier – it is the blueprint.
San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles followed the same model and produced the same result, city by city, billion by billion, for two decades running.
What breaks the cycle is the one thing Wilson's radical leftist ideology forbids: accountability.
Suarez has spent years in recovery communities, and she knows what every sober person knows.
"Without accountability, we are prolonging human suffering, and there's nothing compassionate about trapping a person in their cycle of addiction," she said.
Every addict who got clean had a moment where the consequences finally arrived.
Seattle's $153 million machine – run by nonprofits paying six-figure salaries, backed by a socialist mayor who couldn't say "fentanyl" in her inaugural speech – exists to make sure those consequences never come.
Sources:
- Nikolas Lanum and Rachel del Guidice, "Will socialism save Seattle? City advocates struggle to find solutions as homeless, drug addicts flood streets," Fox News, April 18, 2026.
- Staff, "Critics pick apart Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's first State of the City address," The Center Square, February 18, 2026.
- Staff, "Seattle's New Democrat Socialist Mayor Bombs Major Address," The Daily Caller, February 19, 2026.
- Christopher F. Rufo, "Seattle Under Siege," City Journal, 2019.
- Ari Hoffman and Jonathan Choe, "Washington state spends $143 million to get 126 out of homelessness," Fix Homelessness, 2023.
- Robert Rector and Kevin Dayaratna, "The Housing First Approach Has Failed," The Heritage Foundation, 2020.
