Post by Logan on Feb 16, 2016 3:07:40 GMT -6
For Seattle deputy mayor, homelessness is painfully personal experience
Hyeok Kim was standing in for Seattle Mayor Ed Murray at a neighborhood meeting, like she had several times before. Some people asking Kim questions were upset with Murray, like before, and the meeting was about homelessness, like before.
Then the 40-year-old deputy mayor brought up her own family’s experience with homelessness, something she’d never done before. That’s when the tears came.
“I was crying like a baby,” Kim said in an interview a few days after the Jan. 27 meeting at the Highland Park Improvement Club, where she’d discussed a safe lot for homeless people living in vehicles that the city will open in Delridge later this month.
The moment was unplanned, unscripted and somewhat embarrassing, said Kim, a polished bureaucrat whose normal mode of operation is composed and reserved.
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/for-seattle-deputy-mayor-homelessness-is-painfully-personal-experience/
Hyeok Kim was standing in for Seattle Mayor Ed Murray at a neighborhood meeting, like she had several times before. Some people asking Kim questions were upset with Murray, like before, and the meeting was about homelessness, like before.
Then the 40-year-old deputy mayor brought up her own family’s experience with homelessness, something she’d never done before. That’s when the tears came.
“I was crying like a baby,” Kim said in an interview a few days after the Jan. 27 meeting at the Highland Park Improvement Club, where she’d discussed a safe lot for homeless people living in vehicles that the city will open in Delridge later this month.
The moment was unplanned, unscripted and somewhat embarrassing, said Kim, a polished bureaucrat whose normal mode of operation is composed and reserved.
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/for-seattle-deputy-mayor-homelessness-is-painfully-personal-experience/