Compass Housing Alliance — Local services in Seattle

The staff is corrupt, they foster an environment of rampant theft, and allow open air drug markets to flourish in their properties. Everytime I left Nyer URNESS my apt was broken into. The garage was burglarized, and the staff submitted a edited copy of the surveillance video that did not include the tenants responsible. Thankfully they had an actual human being on staff who showed me the unedited video. Having seen both it was clear other tenants had been edited out. That was only the first week. The executive director refused to speak on record to about the crime and would not provide me with the incident number. I did not even get notified of the burglary and the subsiquent loss of over a 1000$ of my property until the next day when I came downstairs. The unit I was in had plumbing issues so bad that I went 6 weeks without a functioning toilet or shower. It got so bad that I had to call the city inspector to get them to make repairs. A month later I was illegally locked out in obvious retaliation.The manager and the case manger stated that they had called and left 4 messages over the course of a week. After verifying that they had the right number I was surprised to find absolutely zero calls on my phone and no voicemail. These people will lie bald faced to you without a moments hesitation. And after some detective work on glassdoor.com and the BBB I found this

Compass Housing Alliance

Compass Housing Alliance

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The Alliance's Clients are frequently hostile and abusive, similar to dogs, against anyone new, with NO provocation or rationale. The Alliance itself, will give you NO "housing," unless you fit into a stereotypical category of "homeless" people--i.e. veterans, single mothers, junkies, street drunks, sex workers!! I have been on Compass' "waiting list" for over FOUR months (since Nov. 2014!), with NO results!!Why should only a subset of the so-called "homeless" population in Seattle (only 150 or less, out of "over 5,000" supposedly "counted" annually as "homeless"--figures certainly subject to dispute)--get e.g. free prepared meals, a double room w/bed, mail and phone service, etc. Apparently, only these "chosen" are "deserving" enough "poor," to get the Center's (and Seattle/King Co./WA State's) largesse!!!Why?Why do drug or sex addicts,"deserve" the bulk of the public (i.e., tax-financed) spending? Especially when the Center gives them plenty of time (similar to WA DOC!), to fight with and to curse newcomers, visitors, and other "clients" in the Elevator or Mail pickup room (always clogged with e.g. the clientele's smartphones, laptops, bicycles and fresh, hot "meals" for agency supplicants). My appearance is NONE of the particular client's business, who insulted me in the elevator this morning (02/24/2015), on his way to his three-hour bicycle tour all day of Seattle!!! I will end the mail pickup arrangement with Compass (similar to a failed 1960's TV sitcom--"Put [The Vietnam War] on ABC [sic] and it will be cancelled in thirteen weeks!"), as soon as alternatives are available for me (my bank [Key Bank] and Urban Self- Storage refused to accept this arrangement as legal and valid, which of course it is NOT--see e.g. Currier v. Potter (Ninth Circuit (2004)), for details). These people are (largely) poor and "homeless" for a reason--they refuse to accept even the POSSIBILITY of new ideas, and seemingly want to smoke, dress, and live in circa 1982 for-ever!!!! They want society to indulge ONLY their own particular whims---while DENYING everyone...

I was met with some challenges when I first came to Seattle in 2020. One of those was a safe place where I could receive my mail. I have since secured a safe place to receive my mail but I continue to use the compass house as my main mailing address. Why? The Compass House speaks to my heart in what they do. The services they provide and their belief in, everyone deserves a home! Just last week I was walking out from getting my mail and some guy was leaving the elevator with me with a huge smile on his face pushing a basket telling me," I finally got my own space! I finally got my own place!"I get chills just writing that right here. For whatever reason and one I don't question anymore, homeless people, those that are in need, even scary misfits, people that the normal population usually dismiss or wouldn't give the time of day to, they engage me in conversation , they talk to me out of nowhere, tell me what's going on in their life and how their days going. It used to creep me out but honestly, I think they know I'll listen. I think they know I'll tell them what I really think and if there's any advice to give I'll share it and if they just need a sounding board, I'll listen for as much time as I have. And there's one more other reason that i continuetogo there, the people in the mail room. Over the past 3 years I've seen many come and go but there's one main stay there and his name is Philip. If you ever see Philip in the mail room at the compass house, give him a smile say something clever because he'll say something clever back He's a great guy! I've never seen him be rude or upset and he deals with a lot who deserve it, I'm sure of it. I think he's amazing! he's there for the people. And I hope he knows and maybe next time I see him I'll tell him, that he's making a difference every day, an important difference in people's lives that we should all strivei to do that for someone everyday. I love the compass house! Sometimes it's stinky sometimes it's dangerous and sometimes it's loud but it's always entertaining and people usually leave...