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

Press Release - Kincaid for Congress - Washington's 1st District - 2026

HUD and the DOJ Civil Rights Division would be asked to investigate shelter placement, the deliberate redirection of homeless populations, and the systematic economic exclusion of Seattle's Asian American community including potential violations of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983.

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." 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. The city government is intentionally blocking Chinatown from it.

The city is making sure other parts of the city look pretty and safe. They are sweeping the homeless and drug addicts into Chinatown. They will be directing visitors and events away from Chinatown. They are willingly screwing over the hard working law abiding citizens of the Asian community. Just like they have always done in the past.

The evidence is clear, the pattern is documented, and the community has been saying it for years. Seattle and King County have been systematically concentrating homeless shelters, drug treatment facilities, and social service organizations in the Chinatown International District and surrounding Asian American neighborhoods. While wealthier, whiter neighborhoods face no such burden. By 2022, there were 15 homeless shelters within one mile of the CID. Residents were not even informed about a 270 bed shelter expansion until after it had already passed through the King County Council.

But the problem is bigger than shelter placement. If the city of Seattle is actively 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.

This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a well documented pattern of institutional racism. Confirmed by researchers, described in writing by community leaders and visible in the data. Community activist Tanya Woo called it plainly. Seattle has treated the CID as "the city's human dumping ground."

If elected to Congress, Kincaid will formally request in writing and publicly. That federal agencies investigate Seattle's treatment of the Chinatown International District across three areas.

HUD - Department of Housing and Urban Development A formal request to investigate potential Fair Housing Act violations . Not just in how shelter sites are selected using federal dollars, but in whether federal funding is being used as part of a broader pattern of economic exclusion targeting a minority neighborhood. Federal funding comes with civil rights obligations. Those obligations must be enforced.

DOJ Civil Rights Division - Equal Protection A formal request to investigate potential Equal Protection violations. Covering both the systematic placement of undesirable facilities in the CID. The active redirection of homeless populations into the neighborhood ahead of major public events, while comparable burdens are not imposed on wealthier, predominantly white neighborhoods. Passive neglect and deliberate redirection are both forms of discrimination. Both must be investigated.

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 three 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. If the current DOJ refuses to act, that refusal is itself a story and it will be documented.

The Asian American community in Seattle's CID has been raising these concerns for years with little meaningful response from city and county officials. Dozens of immigrant owned small businesses have closed. Elderly residents navigate open air drug markets daily. The neighborhood has borne more than its share for decades. Since Interstate 5 bisected the community, since the Kingdome was placed there, and now through the ongoing pattern of deliberate exclusion and population redirection.

And now as the FIFA World Cup brings a once in a generation economic opportunity to Seattle. The city appears poised to repeat the same pattern. Making sure other neighborhoods look clean and safe while the CID absorbs the consequences. That cannot be allowed to happen without a response.

The Chinatown International District is not in Washington's 1st Congressional District. I will not be their representative. But that does not prevent me from helping them. It is obvious that no one else will. And I believe this is something the Asian American community within WA-01 would want me to do. Because what is happening in the CID is the same pattern of institutional racism that has been imposed on Asian American neighborhoods across this region and nationally for generations. Silence is not an option. Not when the evidence is this clear, and not when the people asking for help have been ignored for this long.
- Kincaid

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