Do people actually read what they report and comment on anymore? Yeah, there is a problem with funding, but there is a possibly more important poison pill in this charter amendment.

The actual wording in the proposed charter amendment, in "Section 2. Third." states:

"As emergency and permanent housing are available, the City shall ensure that City parks, playgrounds, sports fields, public spaces and sidewalks and streets (“public spaces”) remain open and clear of encampments."

https://compassionseattle.org/amendment

So, the city can have housing "available" and then go about sweeping camps.
How is this different from what has been done in the past, where "Navigation Teams" pretended that services were available in order to justify displacing people and trashing their belongings?
This disconnect between theoretical availability of housing and the reality of getting folks into them is 100% intentional on the part of those who crafted this turd.

Maybe "Compassion Seattle" (aka corporate Seattle) did us a favor in putting this forth: any mayoral candidate that can't figure out that this is a backhanded way to bring back "Navigation Teams" and heavy-handed displacement should probably not be mayor.

You know I try to be a good bleeding-heart liberal but sometimes reality just punches us in the face. "The sweeps haven't been working" .. but laissez-faire has?!?! letting camps take over parks so other people can't even use them, accumulating massive amounts of unsanitary garbage, drug dealing and the inevitable drug gun violence-- I'm sorry bring back the sweeps. I'm all for the other policies like more density. I am all for managed camps like Tent city 3 which I saw first hand and was impressed by a self governing community. Allowing shanty towns of filth and violence isn't compassionate. I don't believe in criminalizing people for being homeless but that doesn't mean they should be allowed to do anything they want, break laws. Fuck I hate sounding like I"m almost a right winger here but I hear nobody from the liberal pool offering any effective solutions and I see zero action from government to address the problem. Property is expensive here, hell why don't I just buy an RV and park it on the grass in Cal Anderson and say I'm homeless? There's no rules. Flame away at me now....

@1, @2: Yes, getting the city to maintain parks, streets, and green belts is one of the goals of this charter initiative. Our current City Council has completely abandoned their responsibilities, leaving our parks and green belts to vagrant camps, and our industrial streets to broken-down RVs, stuffed with stolen property, surrounded by garbage. Our Council went to the mat with Mayor Durkan to destroy the Navigation Team, and replaced it with ... nothing. Because our City Council has nothing on this issue. Homeless people rot and die right in front of us, we pay $100,000,000 annually to watch them suffer and die, and anyone who notices this miserable state of affairs gets attacked as lacking compassion. Enough.

Writing policy into our City Charter is a terrible idea. But if that is what it takes to clean our parks, restore our green belts, and get derelict RVs out of our industrial streets, then we'll have to do it.

Here's a charter amendment for you - - dock the pay of city leadership if certain thresholds of getting people into permanent shelter aren't met. They laid that on the homelessness service providers in 2019 and what do you know all of a sudden LIHI's "success" rate shot way the fuck up.
Money talks.

So lets blame the poor again and again. Sweep the corporations not the homeless.

Get on these ultra rich that have caused this mess in the first place by their insatiable greed.
Tax their asses now.

4 great idea bring it back. Unaffordable Seattle. While Amazon warehouse workers live in tents and RVs and scrounge to survive. I wouldn't trust the like of excop Tim Burgess to help me across the street (I am over 80 and remember when Seattle was affordable).

Where is the description of the gay/latino man who is running for mayor by the way?

1 You have hit on it my dear. Another game by the elites of this city to resume the brutal sweeps on the most vulnerable in this city. Poison pill for sure and anyone that supports this is an enemy of the people just like the mayor.