I've seen some open park space in Ravenna:).

Put half of them in the Stranger's offices, and the other half in apodments.

I wish Anna's conclusions weren't so damn accurate.

At least Licata/O'Brien/McGinn are trying to push forward for solutions. Sally Clark's quoted this week as saying that she believes there are "other options", but unless I've missed something, I haven't heard anything resembling other remotely plausible options.

Hey, if unfortunate poor people want some free public land, just give it to them. Also, free utilities, food and medical care.

It's not like they're really asking for much. What could go wrong?

Put 'em in those glamorous new buildings in Ballard

Finally getting to the bedrock of our culture's economic & political impotency.

While Americans like to tell each other that we have everything & our way of life can solve every possible problem, that belief is like any other religion: it's based on faith, not facts. The story sounds wonderful & pretty and helps us unpleasant realities. Homelessness & extreme poverty is a permanent fixture of our economic system. If we want to solve it, we have to alter our bedrock assumptions. Since a third of the country is living in permanent fantasy-land, where Saddam had WMD, where gays secretly meet to ensure that Atlas Shrugged will be a box office disaster, and where a black man elected president is an automatic impeachable offense, it's not going to happen any time soon.

#7 has it right. Why doesn't everyone who bitches an moans about the sitution just invite one Nickelsville family/wino/scumbag into their house permanently. Adopt them for life. Wire the house for sound and video and you could sell that 24hr sitcom online for cash.

I'm not sure a group homeless encampment is something that needs to be "solved"; if anything, it's already a solution of sorts.

From the reporting here, it sounds as though there are people both inside and outside the camp who would like to move the settlement, not "solve" it.

don't we have some kind of abandoned warehouse/large building somewhere in the city? or let them use an empty lot somewhere (oh yeah they already are, set up a few more nickelsville type camps around the city)

So building affordable housing by taxing the rich isn't an option?

I believe each of us should take in 1 homeless person.
It would be a great way to get this poor individual back on
his feet again. We could set a place for them at the dinner table and provide them with cigarettes and beer
and they could wash our dishes or some such. Hopefully,
there would be a room in the basement or garage with good drainage so you can hose the area down every week or so and sanitize the entire area and surrounding rooms with bleach.

Council is feeding you bullxxxx.

We had giant tent camps with hot water, showers, and toilets back during the Great Depression.

They just don't want to tax the millionaires or the corporations who are paying LESS TAXES than you are.

The solution is building housing with tax dollars. Nationwide, so no single city or state has to bear the burden. Barring that, Nickelsville is what we're stuck with. Accept it, or work toward the real solution.

I don't accept Nickelsville, Bulldoze it to the ground, tell the inhabitants to get a job or leave town.