Oh my, homeless advocates demanded something.

the homeless do a pretty good job trashing their own (and other's) belongings, too. maybe you could take a gander at the pike st. express lane ramp - where the buses go in and out of the tunnel.

last week crap was piled about 3' deep behind a chain link fence on what I presume is WSDOT property.

@2 or the encampment off Rainier under I-90... what to do? there is huge pile of trash spllling onto Rainier. What we're doing now is not working and getting worse!

If you didn't have access to garbage service and recycling, your house would probably look pretty trashy also.

Another task force, what progress! Maybe put some of the money being used for "cleaning out encampments" into putting them in housing, Mr Mayor?

@4: If you don't pay property taxes (directly or indirectly through rent), you don't have access to convenient and regular curbside garbage service. There are plenty of options besides "toss it behind your tent" like hump your shit to a regularly emptied public receptacle in a park or something.

Littering is noble when it's a 22 y/o junkie doing it.

I didn't walk up to my house in the middle of a sidewalk one day and decide to drop all of my shit there in the first place

The media needs to describe these homeless advocacy organizations and their members.

Wouldn't this task force better be organized as a demonstration of how the new Seattle Engagement Platform for neighborhoods will work effectively? Doesn't the homeless problem affect both homeowners and renters, young and old, equally?

I have an idea. How about if we sweep Ed "I'm Making This Up As I Go Along" Murray from office in 2017?

Clean the Jungle out and make it uninhabitble,their are ways.Tell Portland to QUIT sending their bums here