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Do we know what the incentive will be to move out of the housing? Is there a limit on how long you can stay there? Is job seeking a requirement? Also, are "chores" mandatory?

I'd like to know these things.
3
Really going to improve the optics of that light rail ride to the airport.
4
@1 @3 which part of emergency don't you get?
5
I'm no expert on homelessness but it seems to me that these tiny houses are a great solution to the short-term need to get roofs over peoples' heads while longer term fixes are worked on. I imagine they cost less than shelters and more pleasant to boot.
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@4, when the "emergency" lasts years and gets worse and worse.
7
Adverse Possession.
8
Vote Socialist ( and get some ballot measures passed that are pro-Socialistic. -- http://www.citizensincharge.org & http://www.ballotpedia.org & http://www.broadleft.org ).
9
Bring everyone over to White Center, we won't notice.

@4 I kid, the rainier valley optics to airport-bound light rail travelers have always been bad! What I really fear is the addition of a bunch of new desperate folks to an already-crime plagued part of town. The Othello corridor might be shootier than Rainier Beach. In this case I actually worry about the people in the camp more than the people in the neighborhood. Maybe equal worry, actually.

This should please the angry northenders, though. Put the garbage in the garbage can where it belongs, right?
10
@1&4: Why should we take you seriously when you clearly don't even know what day it is?
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@9 Rainier Beach laughs at you thinking the Othello area is more dangerous. Plz hang out at S Garden St and lemme know how Othello park feels after .

That said, I love this idea and we'll be much more welcoming than the snobs up north. Just don't let the Seward Park folk get too involved.
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@9 Also White Center lolololol. More like DruggyShootyBlack Center amirite
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@1, 2, and 6: I really wish I could move out of my warm, safe, quiet, private apartment and move into an encampment. I'm sure that all the people who've become newly homeless in the last 10 years had that same wish and thus decided to do so. Especially if they had kids, since living with kids in a tent is so much fun. Or perhaps instead I'll become a service provider, since they all have such easy jobs and the respect of the whole community, besides making the big bucks. .
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@1

Perhaps the incentive to move out is "you have to live in a tent with no electricity, sewage, or running water?"

Why do people like you seem to think that the main problem the homeless have is that they aren't miserable enough?

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