How about the City Council and the Mayor's office spend the money that has already been raised in a more efficient manner by funneling it to organizations that actually house people instead of the myriad agencies that cash the check but don't really provide effective services to get folks off the street????

@1:

You seem to know a lot about this subject. Care to cite to which of these "myriad agencies" you're referring?

Just get rid of all arterial street parking, upzone all arterial blocks to 6+2 MFH with no review, and quadruple all parking fees for all non-electric vehicles.

There, now you have funding.

@2 Fine. LIHI, Nicklesville, Tenants Union, etc.

I keep hearing that if you raises taxes businesses will leave. Great. Raise taxes, some businesses will leave, that will reduce traffic and pressure on the housing market. Maybe some of the homeless can afford to rent a place in Burlington or wherever the jobs relocate to.

@4 and your claim they don't provide services is backed up by ...?

@1 Yeah. Please do tell. And provide cites and numbers.

@4 gee, that was convincing. Care to provide proof?

@6 and 8

Sure. Despite an increase in funding the homeless population has continued to increased.

#1 is spot on. Over the last few years the city has grown it’s budget for homelessness to $63 million a year. They’ve had over 60 million for a couple of years now and what happen with homelessness? Has it gotten significantly better? Where have we spent that money?

Also Journalist from the stranger you talk about this is about big business the amounts that you’re talking about is not even close to big business. Please make sure you understand how businesses work before writing such things. A lot of the money that comes into a business doesn’t go to the owners pockets. Why do you think so many businesses go under all the time in Seattle. They’re just living in piles of money and they decide to call it quits?

Are you aware that Seattle is one the most tax cities already? How are we supposed to be able to pay for people $15 an hour when we’re still trying to figure out how to pay the taxes that have been raised on us? Things to ponder as you write your next article. I know I’m gonna come off as a business person that wants to have his cake and eat it too. I’m focused on trying to pay my 55 employees and provide a spot for folks and folks to have fun.

@2,6,7,8:

https://roominate.com/blog/2016/anatomy-…

@9 so you're just trolling. Of course.

@2,6,7,8,12

My link didn't come through.
Here's why we aren't housing the homeles…. Also how LIHI and Nickelsville are illegally failing to report their financials.

Funding the Greedy - in particular "successful" Greedsters of the Upper Class - is far, FAR more costly to Us Proles/Plebians & Wage Slaves!!! Pah!!!

If you want proof just look out on the street, under bridges, in doorways, alleys, trashed out motorhomes and all the rest. I hear a lot about providing treatment for the addicts, which most of the homeless are, but just what is treatment? Does treatment work? To me it doesn't seem like it does.

@16 If you want to know if treatment works go to a meeting. In my opinion most of the times it doesent work or it takes a few times but whats the alternative? Just shoot them all? I'm happy to pay more taxes to pay for treatment for anyone willing to try.

@17 Is that what treatment is, going to meetings? In that case I can see how it would be unsuccessful. While I don't have a lot of experience with addicts the ones I have known have basically given up on life and have effectively become bored. In other words they get high simply to pass the time; on day after another. They begin their day by waking up from the nod then finding food to eat then searching for their fix. If they have a stash then they're fine for the moment. If they have no stash then their panic begins. Ultimately, though, they make no real effort to change; they have a hopeless dead end attitude and no I don't think that shooting them is the answer. But do you really want to pay more and more taxes to treat individuals who may want help but are so far gone that they will make no effort to change? Maybe you feel they should be given a home, given food and then all the drugs they want until they've ended their miserable lives. Like I said, everybody talks treatment but nobody really seems to know what works.

@5 They won't leave, but they will scale back hiring, make people work more overtime, and fill more positions with contractors so an agency has to pay the head tax. The agency will add the head tax to their overhead, and pay everyone a little less money. It's a regressive tax. It's a fucking payroll tax for christ sake. In a state with NO INCOME TAX. You've got to start saying no to regressive taxes, you fauxgressive d-bags.

@1:

You seem to know a lot about this subject. Care to cite to which of these "myriad agencies" you're referring?

Okay. Here you go. If people would read and take in information from different perspectives instead of finding specific elements that reinforce their position, perhaps we could move the needle on homelessness. Here's an article that references the two specific studies:
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politi…

@21-the link in your post is a dead end. Was there maybe a typo? thanks.