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2025 SHARE ANNUAL REPORT!:  SHARE took a look at the year in review for our community and evaluated the work we did in 2025.   During the year we focused on building partnerships and coalitions with neighbors, organizations, faith communities, and new (and old!) political allies including City Councilmembers, County Councilmembers, and State Legislators.  The year was marked by our resilience, advocacy, and the unwavering spirit of people to stay together, hold our ground, and work hard to try to ensure that nobody is without shelter.   Our struggles are never for ourselves alone.

The biggest challenges of the year were NIMBY-driven and highly politicized site crises for both our organized encampments, Tent City4 and Tent City3.  This instability was exhausting, but we stuck together, kept our promises, campaigned, built broad support, and won back our originally planned-for longer-term stays for both camps, on public land.  Our fight wasn’t just for us, it was for solutions and justice for everyone and every program that’s trying to do something good for homeless people in the neighborhoods of Seattle.

Our biggest successes were building new partnerships & momentum towards creating more shelter:  In January we launched a bold campaign to call for 500 new shelter beds in Seattle and we DID create more shelter, ourselves (as did our WHEEL partners).

In March we facilitated a Shelter Summit at Trinity Episcopal Parish (a WHEEL Shelter host site) and generated a lot of good shelter ideas & proposals. 

In May we started our first family shelter, in partnership with Seattle Mennonite Church, in an unused building on their campus! 

In September we staged a Shelter Rally at Seattle City Hall.  Several political candidates spoke--including Mayoral candidate (and now Mayor!) Katie Wilson, who promised to continue to work with SHARE--and Council candidate Adonis Ducksworth.  Our voices filled City Hall.

In October we co-facilitated a Faith Shelter Summit at Northminster Presbyterian (a SHARE Shelter host site).  About 30 engaged participants toured the shelter, received information packets on how to set up shelters, and joined workgroups. Their enthusiasm sparked calls for quarterly summits, and the next one is scheduled for 1/22/26!  These events built momentum and generated a lot of great ideas that we’ll continue to work on in 2026.

And while we and the City did not create 500 new shelter beds, we made MANY new allies, and raised the profile of the issue.  Seattle’s new Mayor has pledged to create 1000 new shelter beds each year of her term.  That’s the power of our advocacy.  Now, let’s keep working, together!

We’re extremely grateful for the support, advice and solidarity we received last year from the Church Council of Greater Seattle, Journey Christian Church, Seattle Mennonite Church (and Pr Megan Ramer!), Northminster Presbyterian Church (and Pr Jeny Carlson), Trinity Episcopal Parish (and Rev. Sabeth Fitzgibbons), Trinity UMC, all of our other SHARE Shelter hosts and partners, State Legislators Nicole Macri and Darya Farivar, City Councilmembers Mark Solomon and Alexis Rinck, County Councilmembers Jorge Baron, Girmay Zahilay, and Teresa Mosqueda, and our friends at the Lake City Farmers Market and Seattle Public Libraries!

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