Proposal for more sanctioned homeless
encampments in Seattle raises public safety concerns
KCPQ-TV [Tacoma WA],
by
Franque Thompson
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
1/22/2020 10:58:28 AM
SEATTLE - Seattle could see more tiny home villages pop up across the city. On Wednesday, City Council members will discuss a proposal to add dozens more sanctioned homeless encampments. The proposal would allow 40 sanctioned encampments, each having up to 100 residents. The city's legislation would exempt churches and religious groups from acquiring a land use permit, making it easier to set up the tiny home villages and run them. (Snip) “Waking up to men outside my bedroom window was one of the things that I was not okay with. Or finding needles in my neighbor’s yards,” said Amber
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 1/22/2020 11:08:22 AM (No. 295138)
They should be making life miserable for them, not making life comfortable for them. Roust them, run them off, put them in jail overnight, whatever it takes to get them to move elsewhere, get a job, get a place to live. If they are mentally ill, they need to be locked in institutions, where they are safe and we are safe from them, not living on the street.
The world has always had bums, mentally ill, druggies and loser - but until recently we didn't cater to them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kono 1/22/2020 11:16:01 AM (No. 295150)
Doesn't the city become liable for providing water, sewer, and public safety services as soon as it sanctions an encampment?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jacksin5 1/22/2020 11:19:24 AM (No. 295156)
Anything you subsidize, you get more of.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/22/2020 11:20:27 AM (No. 295162)
The more the merrier...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/22/2020 11:25:27 AM (No. 295170)
I prefer to think of them as refugee camps. This is what the democrats have in store for us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 1/22/2020 11:31:53 AM (No. 295179)
That's it, treat the symptom, not the underlying problem. This is why Trump, a business man, a thinker and a decision maker, is so smart, he works on the underlying problems.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 1/22/2020 11:41:21 AM (No. 295191)
From the bottom of the article
Seattle residents like Matthai said they believe the root of the homeless crisis is mental illness and think more time and resources should be spent on addressing it.
I second this. Homeless people are human beings; they are men. They should be treated with the same respect and expectations as other men. But they need help and they require some kind of supervision. They just do. It's a painful and confusing reality because they lack the capacity to hold themselves to some account for their own decisions. They have a tough life and they suffer especially when no one is there to care for them.
And as has been demonstrated in Seattle, others around them suffer as well.
The quote from the article, above, suggests that people may be waking up.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
AltaD 1/22/2020 11:49:35 AM (No. 295202)
FTA: Though Seattle Police said their numbers can’t prove the encampment was to blame, there was a large increase in crime in a two city-block radius from it.
So who is to blame for the uptick in crime, the neighborhood's homeowners?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 1/22/2020 11:52:23 AM (No. 295207)
I suspect that a large homeless community is ripe for ballot harvesting. Who wins in that situation? Not the citizens! Only the politicians!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/22/2020 12:04:09 PM (No. 295224)
Seattle merely wants to become a world class city like Bombay.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Smart11344 1/22/2020 12:52:21 PM (No. 295270)
As soon as typhus or the plague hits Seattle, I hope the democrats, who favor this insanity get it first. I live here. I truly can't understand their unhealthy logic.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 1/22/2020 1:36:48 PM (No. 295319)
@#2 - Do you mean the taxpayers who will be forced to pick up the tab? Yes....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/22/2020 1:38:22 PM (No. 295322)
I have a dear friend who is a lifelong resident of Seattle. Last October there was a big tent settlement a couple of blocks from her home and she was no longer able to even leave an umbrella in her car for fear that one of the tent residents would break a car window to get to it. Then, toward the end of the month, the settlement was cleared out and cleaned up and she was overjoyed. But I told her to reconsider - it was an election year and the city politicians were only trying to hang onto their cushy jobs with the cleanup. Sure enough, they got reelected and now they are allowing even more encampments.
Never, ever, ever trust a demonrat.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/22/2020 2:17:12 PM (No. 295366)
Perhaps slowly it might dawn on the progressive zombies that their votes created this. The pious attitude of hating the 'right' and looking down on any Trump supporter, brought this right to your front door. How do you like that? We tried to tell you, but you listened to the TV and worse, you believed the rat politicians you voted for. All the bad things happening to you are the result of YOUR smug attitude and your stupidity. Not sure there will ever be enough informed voters in Seattle to change things.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
VAfreedomluver 1/22/2020 2:17:45 PM (No. 295367)
The mild climate has long made Portland and Seattle a destination for bums, but the current wacko leftist population of those cities has let it get out of control.
Some of the vagrants have severe mental illness and need institutional treatment. I'd guess majority are just plain old bums, though. Don't want help for their addictions, don't want to live by rules, don't want to be part of any community. The best response is to roust them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 1/22/2020 2:59:52 PM (No. 295421)
All we need to do is print more money to pay for all the goods...that belief is ingrained in people by their not so bright public school leftist teachers. We need to teach the basics once again. The older I get...!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 1/22/2020 7:31:02 PM (No. 295602)
FTA: "'Licton Springs was an exception and moving forward, I think a lot of changes have been put in place so that the
Licton Springs experience will be very, very different,” said Sharon Lee, executive director for the Low Income Housing Institute....We have a homelessness crisis. We have a humanitarian crisis about people living on the street. So, we want to see more investment into affordable housing by the public and private sector."
This woman is an unrelieved idiot. Sharon Lee simply cannot recognize that the problem she claims to want to solve is caused by her solution. Street people do not need "housing;" they need treatment. Often, they are so damaged that they themselves cannot recognize that need. Subsidizing them in camps perpetuates their misery and imperils the community around them. Anyone living in street "encampments" is either mentally ill or terminally indolent. The lazy need to be kicked out; the ill need to be picked up humanely and held involuntarily until they can actually re-integrate into a society.
It's madness -- first theirs, and then hers.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 1/22/2020 9:44:09 PM (No. 295642)
FTA: ... 700 men, women and children live in a tiny house. How do they get 700 people in a ting house? seriously now, they are overlooking a key factor - many of them have a spiritual problem. That sort of problem cannot be fix with houses, mental institutions, or rehabilitation. Only G-d can fix that. I do, however, understand why it is not considered. Dems think they can do a better job of it than G-d and they don't want to share the glory. Once that is recognized and accepted then some of these other ideas may help, otherwise it is all being built on sand.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Penney 1/22/2020 10:58:28 PM (No. 295671)
Seattle's dem pols are enabling poverty to spread by making the area a magnet for squatters. These lefty pols' homeless agenda is helping no one, least of all those in real need. And now they have diseases to contend with.
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