Kincaid for Congress 2028 – Washington’s 1st District

Three Crises, Three Solutions: A Smarter Strategy to End Homelessness "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." By that standard America's approach to homelessness has lost its mind. We spend more every year. The crisis gets worse every year. The problem is not a lack of money and it is not a lack of compassion. It is that we keep applying one solution to three completely different problems. Homelessness is not one crisis. It is three  addiction, severe mental illness and economic hardship. Each one demands a different response. Until our policy matches the cause to the cure nothing will change. Decades of Failure Billions Spent For decades  agencies from HUD down to county programs have spent billions to fight homelessness. The spending goes up. The promises pile up. The encampments keep growing. Why? Because most of our programs rest on a theory that does not survive contact with reality. That if a thousand people are home...

A Note on the District Lines Let me be upfront about something. The Eastgate neighborhood sits in south Bellevue. Which falls within Washington's 9th Congressional District not the 1st District I am running to represent. North Bellevue is in the 1st. So why am I speaking out on this? Three reasons. First this is my backyard. The people affected are my neighbors. And I will not stay silent about a public safety failure next door simply because a district line runs through Bellevue. Second the shelter compact that created this situation was a King County regional decision. One that crossed multiple city and district lines. Involving Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond together. Regional decisions demand regional accountability. Third these facilities receive federal funding. Which means any member of Congress in this region has a legitimate oversight interest in how that money is spent and whether the programs are working. I will always tell you the truth about what I can and cannot...