Just like every crisis, this heat wave is hitting unhoused people the hardest. David Ryder | Getty

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1

Loving the heat. It will pass in a few days, and in a few months you’ll have all the chilly, rainy days you crave.

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"heat wave gave us little relief overnight" ......dude, try Phoenix, where the low overnight temps are 85' to 90'F!

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@2: It would be grand to watch Will & the Stranger goad someone into that lawsuit, only to watch the current Supreme Court overturn "Martin v. Boise" entirely. (I can just hear Alito's voice, mocking the poors for their own misfortunes.)

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Man, what a list of personal grievances and pet issues masquerading as a news digest. If you listen closely, media outlets seem to be chattering about the news more than actual people I know.

7

Your kitten MUST sleep in your bed. There is no other place.

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LOL, “chattering about the HEAT” is what I meant to say

8

you shouldn't be complaining about your thumb and index finger being severed in that accident, some people have their whole hand cut off!

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"Federal courts have ruled that enforcing criminal laws against trespassing or sleeping outside when insufficient shelter capacity exists violates the Constitution, so if any enterprising attorneys out there decide to challenge the Mayor's office on this policy, let me know."

Will is apparently unaware of Yeager v. City of Seattle, 2:20-CV-01813-RAJ, 2020 WL 7398748 (W.D. Wash. Dec. 17, 2020).

10

Stranger staffers like to imagine that they are "edgy" for seeming to question everything, yet I haven't yet seen them question the basic premise that building more and denser housing in cities will somehow stop or lessen sprawl. I see no evidence that it will, no evidence that it has, and no evidence whatever to reinforce the assumption. Only repetition of the proposition, as if constant repetition somehow conferred validity. Sort of like "The 2020 election was stolen."

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@5 almost all denser housing is not made out of concrete and actually is generally built with white roofs to reflect sunlight and reduce heat gain, as well as fulfilling city requirements for trees and green amenity spaces surrounding the housing to provide shade and help with stormwater retention. Now parking lots, parking structures, and multi lane traffic sewers on the other hand...

Sorry about the facts bud.

12

I'm complicit for a bunch of corrupt Indiana prison guards, got it. (eyeroll emoji)

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@13

They don't write that bullshit because they think it's true. They write it because it's in-group signalling. They know it bothers you because it's bullshit, but their in-group likes it because that bullshit bothers you and stymies change. Win-win for them. You may as well explain it to your cat for all the good it's going to do.

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FFS, Will, read up on the Urban Growth Boundary. The most forward-thinking policy that's ever been done in WA.

Stop whinging about the low 90s with no humidity, FFS. As you stated, many of us moved here to escape sweltering weather, but it's HUMIDITY I ran away from. Fuck. Humidity.

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@10,

So you need to see some evidence that having more people housed in a downtown core, rather than in the sprawling suburbs will result in less people living in said sprawling suburbs? I mean, I've not personally seen any evidence that chewing up and digesting a large pile of broken glass will result in my having an upset stomach, but I think sometimes you've just gotta take a leap of faith.

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@3:

Yes, but 86% of dwellings down there have AC; we have about half that amount up here in Seattle and most of those are newer structures built in the past ten years, although I have seen a fair amount of retrofitting on older dwellings recently.

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Tammy was making it sound like there was enough shelter capacity, just not the kind where people want to go. You know, because shooting dope is better than being inside and cool.
So, which is it? Not enough shelter, or people refused because they couldn't pick-and-choose their shelter?

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@14 I lived in a high rise apartment in Pioneer Square for 6 years. Before that, I lived in an apartment in Bellevue situated on a greenbelt. If I could have a do-over, I'd have never moved out of that apartment in Bellevue. Being surrounded by trees and actually having a functioning balcony that I could enjoy these hot summer days on is FAR more superior than having no personal outdoor space and being baked to death on the roof top "patios" that many downtown buildings have.

I got the fuck out of Pioneer Square during the pandemic and bought a house out in the suburbs. With lots of green space, no homeless addicts sleeping right outside my building, and - gird your loins and clutch your pearls - I drive everywhere because nobody in city planning gives a fuck about proper transit out in the suburbs. Living in a building packed like sardines is something I'll never do again.


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