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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
Some councilmembers seem to confuse talk with action, rhetoric with results. They think of the homeless the same way Republicans think of undocumented immigrants.
We are trying to be a civilized society here. I think it's about time we started acting like it and quit worrying about whether other people "deserve" it or not.
However, here's one thing worth keeping in mind: folks that decide to encamp in scary places like this are outside of the jurisdiction of Seattle. They're in the state's jurisdiction. So what did Washdot or the State Patrol have to say about this when contacted?
1 down, 4 to go.
Bull-fucking-shit.
If you want to solve the problem, you'll find a way to make it plausible.
@ 15 - Not worthless; harmful.
Trolls at @ 21, 20, 19, 12, etc. You reflect the hateful side of America.
Great post Dominic.
This plays out on so many levels. Dominic identifies many of them here. But it goes even deeper than that. A couple of years ago the then head of Seattle's Human Services Department was working on new core principles for the Dept. She refused to include housing first and harm reduction as core goals/principles. Until the city commits itself philosophically and monetarily to housing first, all the committees and plans to end homelessness in the world don't/won't matter.
the (suspiciously anecdotal) utah example everyone is pointing at as the solution? where is the money to pay for that in Sea/King Co/WA? where is the political will? where are the empty apartments?
Houses in Canton, OH sell for $75,000
Plenty of other places as well.
...now here's the thing. Most people read that above and got that it's a sarcastic reference to internment camps, Indian reservations, or otherwise imprisoning people who haven't broken any law. sROTu read it and considered it the preferable solution if only everyone else would let him do it. The same people who bemoan a lack of freedom in this country are the ones who most wish to oppress anyone who actually tries to exercise that freedom.
How exactly is @19 being hateful? The simple suggestion is that you offer up your own backyard to the homeless. Why don't you?
What, you don't have a heart? You reflect the hateful side of America.
This is really sad, and especially so when what encampment options are most readily available are so life threateningly dangerous.
This is what happens when the insanely rich and corrupt get exponentially richer, buy their own lobbyists and legislators, and the hell with the rest of us because we're all that much poorer.
Can Sally Clark get ousted?
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Woman…
Hell, the paramount could have a summer concert series in the park right in its own backyard.
It's already like half done if you count the convention center.
Most people would see the logical solution to homelessness as creating affordable and cheap housing.
That's cannot happen anywhere in Seattle or most of Washington State because of the overpriced real estate.
The only reason homeless are here is because the bureaucrats who get funding based on their existence want to be here.
It's not about helping the homeless, its about agencies paying for six figure directorships.
http://tinyurl.com/pyuvwb8
SROTU is undoubtedly an idiot, but I've seen many people, bleeding heart liberals, who espouse many of the same ideas. They'll bemoan the fact that there are more empty houses than homeless people, as though the solution to homelessness is as simple as shipping the homeless to those abandoned houses, even though the abandoned houses are concentrated in shitholes (Detroit, Las Vegas, Arizona, Florida) that can't/refuse to offer the services that most chronic homeless people can't live without.
Not understanding the actual causes of homelessness and making it out to be as simple as buying homes in the middle of nowhere is a common fallacy even among the far left.
If this is a response to my comment, how is giving a homeless person a home in, say Detroit, an avenue toward getting that homeless person a job, given that city's lack of services and jobs?
No, it's not as simple as just giving them homes or else dumping them in the middle of the desert would be an option.
And it's not as if the British have exactly been running an altruistic social-justice state in our Thatcher-addled lifetimes. Their housing and sheltering and rehabbing and keeping-as-many-as-possible-off-the-streets-in-the-first-place initiatives are also born of a recognition that it isn't any healthier for the general populace to let their public realms devolve into a 24/7 junkie shitshow than it is for the actors in that show.
That's a beautiful story. And you are a naive bubble head. Keep smokin' them doobies, Seattle! It makes you real smart!