Mayor Paul Schell

Mayor Paul Schell was a real estate developer for most of his career until he ran for Mayor a second time in 1997. He won the hearts of Seattle’s residents, as well as Democrats and Republicans. The people loved that he was a risk-taker with a heart of gold. Schell was very serious about decreasing the number of homeless females and homeless families with children. In a pledge he made in June of 1998, he proclaimed that there would be no homeless people on the street by Christmas of the same year. That day in June, he made a firm pledge. Many were curious as to just how Mayor Schell would be successful in doing so with so many factors that could possibly get in the way of him fulfilling his statement. Mayor Schell made some policy choices that were a part of his strategy to better the homelessness issue is Seattle. One choice he made was to lower the number of homeless people living on the street. It was very hard to keep count of the number of homeless people on the street because it was ever-changing. Some people who are homeless are transitional. One night they could sleep on the street, and other nights they
He stressed the fact that he was not satisfied with the amount of families that were living on the streets, and people gravitated towards him because of that. He possessed a heart of gold and had many ideas that would fix the Seattle homeless issue, but he did not act upon those ideas. His pledge in June of 1998 was a very firm one, and many waited to see exactly how he would act on his pledge. He received the funds he needed to do the things he wanted and still did not have a plan to permanently decrease homelessness like he said he would. If Mayor Schell would have strategically approached the homeless issue, he would have had a chance at success with getting and keeping homeless families off Seattle’s