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Washington state’s rise in homelessness
outpaced the nation’s, according to
report

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Posted By: Ron_lfp, 3/23/2021 12:07:46 PM

Washington saw one of the biggest estimated increases in people experiencing homelessness in the country between 2019 and 2020, according to new national figures from an annual report to Congress. Overall homelessness across the U.S. grew by more than 2% that year, according to the report’s estimates, but Washington saw an overall increase of 6.2%, or 1,346 people — the third largest increase in the number of homeless people among all 50 states. (snip) Washington, for example, saw a 20% increase in family homelessness between 2019 and 2020, one of the biggest nationwide

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Seattle recruits people to live on the street. Makes clear they will help you keep your addiction; will not prosecute crimes because you are "homeless."

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Scottyboy 3/23/2021 12:12:41 PM (No. 732632)
No surprises here.. Whether it be San Francisco, Denver, Portland, NYC, Chicago or Seattle, wherever “progressivism goes, disparity, misery homelessness, crime, violence an poor bodily hygiene follows.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: stablemoney 3/23/2021 1:03:20 PM (No. 732687)
I think it's awful that a wealthy state like WA cannot arrange for housing for its people. Microsoft has a campus large enough to house all of them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 3/23/2021 1:07:32 PM (No. 732695)
Vote in lefty politicians, and everything gets worse for middle class and lower class folks. EVERYTHING. Perhaps they could find jobs if there weren't 4 illegal aliens in line ahead of them. Or, if they are the mentally ill, they should be in mental institutions getting care, not living in tents and crapping on the sidewalks, and hassling people.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: pmcclure 3/23/2021 1:29:31 PM (No. 732725)
Seattle has become a hellhole because of evil politicians who subsidize drug addiction.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bighambone 3/23/2021 1:32:34 PM (No. 732731)
They should call Biden, as he is spending about 86 million dollars to house incoming illegal aliens in motels. How about the National Guard who have to sleep in parking garages and the US citizen homeless in the Democrat run cities?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bad-hair 3/23/2021 1:34:43 PM (No. 732738)
The Biden administration in a bold move to solve the border crisis has given an undisclosed number of small towns in Arizona to Mexico.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Surroundedbyblue 3/23/2021 2:13:03 PM (No. 732780)
Inslee is Asshoe.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: 3XALADY 3/23/2021 2:14:20 PM (No. 732782)
Who would take the stinky job of counting the homeless in these cities?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: bad-hair 3/23/2021 2:58:45 PM (No. 732825)
Pretty obvious. Better to be homeless in Washington than New York where they'll tax you for it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 3/23/2021 5:28:34 PM (No. 732966)
We sure they aren't just pretentious hipsters taking it to the next level?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mifla 3/24/2021 5:15:49 AM (No. 733399)
And the citizens will still vote blue.
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