Kincaid Will Request Federal Investigations into Seattle's Treatment of the Chinatown International District

Kincaid for Congress -- Statement on the Chinatown International District

Kincaid Will Request Federal Investigations into Seattle's Treatment of the Chinatown International District

Everyone is excited about the FIFA World Cup coming to Seattle. Many restaurants and other businesses will see a big boost in traffic and make a lot of money. It is doubtful that businesses in Chinatown will see any benefits from it. Just like in all past big events that came to Seattle.

If elected Kincaid will formally request federal investigations into the City of Seattle and King County over their treatment of the Chinatown International District. This is not a symbolic gesture. It is a specific set of requests to specific federal agencies with specific statutory authority.

The Record Speaks for Itself

By 2022 there were 15 homeless shelters within one mile of the CID. That same year King County expanded a 270 bed shelter bordering the neighborhood into a 419 bed services hub. One of the largest concentrations of social services in the region. Residents were not even informed until a month after the project had already passed through the King County Council.

This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a well documented pattern. Confirmed by researchers. Described in writing by community leaders. Visible in the data.

Stephen Metraux a homelessness researcher at the University of Delaware. Warned that the CID services hub "risks becoming a dumping ground" for homeless people. He noted that shelters have historically been concentrated in low income neighborhoods where people of color live. Neighborhoods with little political capital to fight back.

Community leader Tanya Woo said it plainly. "It feels like King County and the City of Seattle is engaged in this pattern of institutional racism and they need to know that it needs to stop." And again: "I don't think it's fair that we shoulder the city and the county's homeless crisis."

The pattern is older than the shelters. Interstate 5 was driven through the heart of the neighborhood. In 2017 the Navigation Center opened in Little Saigon without consulting the community. Business after business has closed. Viet Wah Market shut its doors after 34 years. With its vice president saying customers and staff no longer felt safe coming to the area.

This Is Not Just Seattle. It Is a National Pattern.

What Seattle is doing to the CID. Other cities have done to their Chinatowns for generations. When a city needs somewhere to put the things no other neighborhood will accept. It puts them in Chinatown. The American Asian community.

Philadelphia. Roughly every decade the city has proposed a new unwanted project for Chinatown. The Vine Street Expressway in 1966. A convention center that displaced 200 residents and seven businesses. A federal prison in 1993.

New York. Of the four sites chosen for the city's borough based jails. The largest a roughly 300 foot tower expected to cost $3.9 billion. Set to be the tallest jail in the world is being built in Manhattan's Chinatown. The community has fought it with protests, lawsuits and lobbying across three mayors.

Boston. In 1974 the Boston Redevelopment Authority officially zoned the city's adult entertainment district. The "Combat Zone" directly beside Chinatown. Displaced red light businesses had moved there because rents were low and in the words of historians. Chinatown residents lacked the political power to keep them out. This came after the Central Artery and the Mass Turnpike had already carved up the neighborhood.

Portland. Old Town Chinatown is widely known as the city's primary homeless district. With homeless services providers clustered in the neighborhood. In 2021 the Lan Su Chinese Garden, Japanese American Museum of Oregon and the Portland Chinatown Museum. Jointly wrote to city and county officials about rapidly deteriorating conditions, open drug dealing, fires and assaults. Exactly the conditions in Seattle’s Chinatown.

Same playbook. Different cities . The prisons, highways, vice districts and the homeless shelters. They always seem to land in the one neighborhood whose residents were never asked.

The Federal Requests

HUD. A formal request to investigate whether shelter placement decisions in and around the CID violate fair housing obligations. Including the concentration of facilities in a single minority neighborhood. While surrounding jurisdictions carry a fraction of the burden.

DOJ Civil Rights Division -- 42 U.S.C. Section 1983. A formal request to investigate potential violations of the federal civil rights statute that covers government actors who deprive people of constitutional rights under color of law. This is the most serious of the allegations. If city officials are deliberately redirecting homeless populations into the CID ahead of major events . While steering economic activity away. And doing so as a matter of policy rather than accident. That is not neglect. That is the intentional use of government power to harm a minority community based on race and ethnicity. Section 1983 exists precisely for this situation. Unlike the EPA's now shuttered Office of Environmental Justice. The DOJ Civil Rights Division retains the statutory authority and the investigative capacity to pursue this. A public request will create a federal record that no future administration can ignore.

HUD and the DOJ Civil Rights Division would be asked to investigate shelter placement. The redirection of homeless populations. And the systematic economic exclusion of Seattle's Asian American community.

The Question the World Cup Will Answer

The World Cup is the test. If the pattern holds. If Pioneer Square and the waterfront boom while the CID is passed over once again. Then Seattle will have demonstrated. In real time and in public view. Exactly what this neighborhood has been saying for decades.

If the city is redirecting homeless populations into the CID ahead of major events while simultaneously steering visitors and economic activity away from the neighborhood. That is not neglect. That is deliberate policy. It is the use of government power to engineer economic harm to a minority community. And it demands a federal response that matches the full scope of what is happening.

It's time for the Asian community to stand up and shout. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

Kincaid for Congress -- Washington's 1st District

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