@sturnerofficial @AGPamBondi @AAGDhillon 2018 internal email pushes to "decide in advance as a new pilot program to bypass the tool's point guidelines/limitations for issuing financial assistance for those racial priority groups." Cites: "Homelessness is not a colorblind problem, so we cannot apply colorblind solutions." And "It takes more than equal treatment to interrupt unequal systems." Seattle's Racial Equity Toolkit (RET) ensures outcomes favor "priority races" (BIPOC). If a "on-the-face universal strategy" like VI-SPDAT unintentionally benefits whites, RET instructs altering policies/tools until they prioritize targeted races—analyzing HMIS metrics, dropping/replacing any that help whites, and even gerrymandering definitions to look benign while intentionally excluding white people. Ex: They dropped HUD's VI-SPDAT in Coordinated Entry System (2022) because it helped whites; then kept tweaking HMIS-based metrics until achieving the desired outcome: primarily helping BIPOC. When I spoke up about the legalities of what the city was doing I was retaliated against and labeled a racist. Was I right for speaking up, or is this legal? Because this is RSJI.
