Peninsula Behavioral Health’s new $12.7 million North View complex—backed by Commissioner Mike French and $4 million in Clallam County tax funds—offers permanent supportive housing with rooftop terraces, quartz counters, new appliances, and a dog-washing sink at roughly $350,000+ per unit. Public Facebook posts from one resident, Ashley Gregory, show a daily routine of free buses to the waterfront for pot smoking, Harm Reduction Center supplies, Medicaid-supported facial feminization surgery, and caseworker rides for elective consultations. Hardworking taxpayers fund the lodging, transport, and care while the system prioritizes those with criminal histories and substance-use issues over families and the elderly.
The Project French Championed
North View is the 36-unit permanent supportive housing project at 138 W. 2nd Street in Port Angeles. Commissioner Mike French has repeatedly highlighted it as a success of the local affordable-housing sales tax he proposed and put on the ballot.
Clallam County committed $4 million from behavioral-health reserves and affordable-housing sales-tax accounts. The total project cost is approximately $12.75 million—more than $350,000 per unit.
Project materials and prior reporting document three rooftop terraces with harbor and mountain views, dishwashers, quartz countertops, a dog-washing sink, and an EV charging station. Residents can stay indefinitely if they meet income rules and receive on-site services.
Who the System Prioritizes
PBH materials and CEO Wendy Sisk’s statements describe North View as prioritizing those recovering from substance-use disorders and individuals at high risk of jail recidivism. The housing is low-barrier, meaning drug and alcohol abuse are tolerated.
North View resident Ashley Gregory’s public Facebook profile describes a 49-year-old pansexual/transgender woman, punk rocker/goth/juggalo, artist, and Port Angeles resident who is “4:20” (marijuana) friendly.
Posts celebrate permanent supportive housing through the clinic (PBH), a large bathroom, drawing and painting in the new unit, and the elevator already out of order.
One post notes the 36-unit building with family units, 2BR, 1BR, and studios, with the clinic involved and the resident hopeful for a studio or one-bedroom that allows a long-term stay with continued services.
Public records show that Ashley Gregory was previously known as Scott Warren Gregory. In August 2011, a Muskogee Phoenix report detailed that Scott Warren Gregory, then 34, was arrested in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on complaints of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and domestic abuse and held on $5,000 bond.
He was found unconscious and bloody in the street around 4 p.m. and taken to a hospital under police guard in intensive care.
At roughly the same time, police took an assault report from a woman identifying herself as his fiancé, Melinda Wolters, who said she had been hit in the face with a board and that Gregory may have taken a full bottle of Xanax.
A Daily Routine Funded by Taxpayers
The same posts document a “wake and bake” beach lifestyle, watching sunrise and sea life…
Daily free-bus rides from Sequim to Port Angeles for waterfront time and cannabis…
And visits to the county Harm Reduction Center for free nicotine patches, lozenges, and gum.
The resident notes the center also distributes needles and pipes and wonders about additional free supplies. Posts announce plans to quit tobacco by New Year’s while continuing cannabis use.
Elective Care, Free Rides, and Permanent Housing
Posts describe PBH arranging approved rides for facial feminization surgery (FFS) consultation.
Posts show recovery images with bandages and frozen peas as ice packs roughly one month post-op.
The resident states five years of legal female status with no issues and openly identifies as transgender.
County funding, Medicaid, SSI-related payments, food assistance, free meals at the Horizon Center, and caseworker transportation for medical appointments are all part of the service package available to clients.
The Contrast PBH Doesn’t Advertise
This is the system in practice: a working taxpayer’s sales-tax and property-tax dollars help build and operate permanent luxury-view units and related services. A client can ride the free bus daily for recreational cannabis on the waterfront yet receive dedicated PBH staff and vehicle transport for elective surgery consults in Seattle. Single parents and elderly widows remain on housing waitlists while permanent supportive units go to prioritized behavioral-health clients who, by their own public posts, spend days drawing, listening to music, and using cannabis. The elevator in the brand-new building is already broken.
The Question for Working Taxpayers
Mike French has pointed to the local affordable-housing sales tax he proposed and the resulting North View project as evidence of progress. The per-unit cost and the visible lifestyle of residents like Ashley Gregory raise a straightforward question for every working resident of Clallam County: why pay rising taxes for permanent harbor-view housing, free supplies, and elective care for this population while families and seniors wait?
The public record—county funding votes, project descriptions, PBH statements, and the resident’s own unfiltered posts—shows exactly where the money goes.
sad to see people being manipulated into drug induced art classes.
my little cousin *was an incredible artist as well..
i wonder if people realize they could be a part of something sinister, perhaps a science experiment.
All of us.💥
-it doesn’t have to make sense.
but it does.
Jeff 🫵🏼👊🏻
I just ate dinner and am going to throw up. This is in your face see what you are paying for larceny. Get a job he/she and pay for your dope. You are a felon and a thief of my taxpayer money. French should be embarrassed and voted out. When people of Seattle read this hotel forever paradise they will come. OBTW they already have.i wonder what the libs on CCWD will say now? When Jeff exposes this crap they disappear or say no proof. Sorry libs Jake will stop this liberal larceny. The truth hurts thank you Jeff. Elevator is the first hiccup wait until they trash the $12.7m facility so we can build a better one.