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The idea that the homeless are residents who have now been displaced is a misnomer, especially in Seattle. Seattle has abundant housing and welfare choices and
by hackernewds 2y ago
The idea that the homeless are residents who have now been displaced is a misnomer, especially in Seattle. Seattle has abundant housing and welfare choices and very loose enforcement of any laws. Up north you can get a govt provided tiny home with high speed internet, if one were to choose to leave the streets.
- fragmede 2y agoWhat's the name of that program? A tiny home with Internet sounds nice.
- vkou 2y ago> Seattle has abundant housing Seattle has five-year waiting lists[1] for low-income housing, and practically no housing options for someone who is actually broke and homeless, even if they don't have an addiction. It has some shelters, but shelters aren't housing. A shelter is a place you can (sometimes) sleep, it's not a place you can live in. And it doesn't have 9,000 empty shelter beds, to house all the street homeless, either. You know where has abundant housing? NYC. A city with 10 times the population, but half the street homeless. Because the rest are housed. (A foreign concept to this city.) [1] https://www.seattlehousing.org/housing/all/list https://www.seattlehousing.org/housing/all/list
- edgyquant 2y agoIt isn’t the public’s responsibility to house you. Shelters aren’t meant to be your house
- vkou 2y agoIt is in New York, and NYC doesn't look like shit thanks to it. But sure, I guess you like seeing thousands of street homeless all day, every day.[1] Because that's what you'd get, even if they were all sheltered (which Seattle won't do, either). P.S. It damn well is the public's responsibility when public policies create the housing crisis. [1] Which certainly put you in opposition to the expressed preferences of this entire city.