In December, the Snohomish County Council approved a one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) sales tax increase to support mental health and chemical dependency services. This sales tax option is available to each county, as enabled by the state legislature in 2005. I think this makes Snohomish at least the tenth county to implement the local option (after Clallam, Clark, Island, Jefferson, King, Okanogan, Skagit, Spokane, and Whatcom Counties). You can see more information on the background and implementation of the local sales tax option for mental health and chemical dependency services here.

How does this connect to housing and homelessness? Sadly, in a great many ways. Study after study have shown that the people living on the streets disproportionately suffer from untreated mental illness

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