Mayor Wilson wants 1,000 new shelter beds this year. Is it possible?

Seattle Now

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s campaign promised one thousand emergency beds by the end of the year. It’s ambitious… but she and the City Council are working through growing pains to get it done. Seattle Times reporter David Kroman will give us some insight on how it’s going.

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0:47.0	Hey, good morning.
0:48.4	I'm Patricia Murphy.
0:49.8	It's Wednesday.
0:50.9	This is Seattle now.
0:52.0	Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's campaign promised 1,000 emergency shelter
0:56.8	beds by the end of the year. It's ambitious, but she and the city council are working through
1:02.1	growing pains to get it done. Seattle Times reporter David Cromen will give us some insight
1:07.0	on how that's going in a minute, But first, let's get you caught up.
1:20.1	A couple of World Cup stories to start the show today. First, Seattle City Council member Rob Saka wants surveillance cameras near the stadiums turned on for the World Cup. He's asking Mayor
1:26.6	Katie Wilson to change a policy that says cameras
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