Viet Nam's jobless is HOW low?

Really telling to read the opinions of the older generation who came here as refugees ("we got help, now it's our turn to help") versus the opinions of the mostly younger members of FLS ("we got ours, now get the eff out")

How is there a "lack of process" when a homeless shelter is being located in the EXACT SAME SPACE that a previous one was operating in? Especially when the new facility will be better equipped to provide needed services... AND it addresses the complaint that overnight-only shelters require people to line up outside every night and get turned out en masse in the morning? Won't this likely be LESS disruptive than the previous tenant?

That's "jobless rate": It's pretty fucking low ( compared to MOST nation-states: I wish I could get work there; but I'm not a neither ethnically nor nationally Viet Namese . . . .--- http://www.cis.org & http://www.irli.org ( and HOW many immigrants are Fellow Socialists? I thought so . . . .)

"Modeled after a center in San Francisco" because San Francisco has done such a great job ending homelessness​.

Vietnamese people like to take their whole family out to eat, or buy lots of food to cook and invite everyone over to dinner and cookouts, so most of the businesses in Little Saigon cater to this. They're probably worried that the shelter residents with drug problems might cause safety concerns, especially if dealers move into the area. There are also many older Asians who live alone around there, from the time when they weren't allowed to live anywhere else. The city needs to be aware and make sure that they aren't adversely affected, or afraid to walk alone outside.

I go down there to eat and buy from the delis, and there are often homeless people standing outside shops asking for money. They're pretty inoffensive, but sometimes there are fights where the police has to come, one time I saw a guy waving a knife around. It could make people uncomfortable, and stop shopping and taking their kids to eat in Little Saigon if this becomes more frequent and more aggressive, like some of the incidents in Occidental and Pioneer Squares. If there are a lot of people using needles, the city needs to have a way to minimize used needles tossed on the streets also. There are lots of little kids down there on the weekends.

I don't think it's being NIMBY in this case, to ask that the City give them better information about the Shelter, and answer their concerns. It's rather shocking that the City made no attempt to do this at all earlier. When they proposed the same thing in Ballard, they held several community meetings over several months!

Don't worry - now there's a huge plot of land in Laurelhurst - the Talaris Institute property- that's up for sale. It will be the perfect location for a low barrier homeless shelter. So the international district won't have to deal with it anymore :-).

People are correct to be concerned about these shelters. Many homeless persons (perhaps most) don't want to go to the shelters because of crime and how they're treated.

If they're going to build shelters, put in the neighborhoods where property values are the highest. Then watch our city solve homelessness faster than a NY sec.

I do not believe in these shelters, period. People need modest apartments for individuals, couples or families - each of which should be equipped with bathrooms, kitchens and running water.

Get your minds out of the gutters of 19th century Dickensian thinking and just give people homes, no strings attached. Guess what? Studies show that it also saves money to do this. It costs less than all this shelter BS.

@North American Jay Bird: But all those Racists don't want "undesirables" and "untermensch" living in any of those eighteen MILLION EMPTY houses ! ( not to forget Goddess-Knows-How-Many empty apartments, condos, and mobile homes . . . Probably the same motherfucKKKerrs who get away with NOT renting to - and hiring - POCs . . . especially Blacks . . . .