Seattle is Dying: Your Voice, Your Future
Great hour-long special on some local network station. Like San Francisco, Seattle with all its natural beauty is a mess due to the political policies implemented. Folks that vote Democrat or Socialist in 2020 will knowingly or not, assure the social mess in SF and Seattle spreads to other cities across our nation. My wife isn't from the US and was appalled at the poverty, Drugs, filth and dispare. Truly a shame.
Yeah, neoliberal inequality and social austerity suck pretty bad. There should probably be living wage jobs, affordable housing and a housing first policy for homeless people.
Would you like to explain how any of those policies would prevent tent cities, defication in the streets and cemeteries, open drug use and addiction?
We spend more on social programs than almost anywhere else by dollars and %. Where's the austerity? Inequality - agree 1000%
What's your solution? Jail everyone?
I don't know about WA, but when I was in SF a couple of months ago - it seemed like at least some of those people on the streets deserved to be in jail. The joke's on us though, since us taxpayers are going to pay even more to keep vagrants in jail.
Ok so jail every homeless person in sf? Then what?
This is bullshit. Seattle is the same as it always has been. Moderate climates on the West Coast attract homelessness. Portland & LA have similar issues. The KOMO special was a piece of propaganda masquerading as journalism. If you don’t like Seattle. Please, leave.
Let’s not ignore the blatant enabling policies from SF/Seattle city councils that allow homelessness and drug addictions to thrive. If I camp outside someone’s home in Studio City (LA), I would be evicted in a matter of hours. Meanwhile there are people camping outside of neighborhoods in Ballard completely undisturbed.
Portland and LA are both Uber liberal. We left 3 years ago - poor schools, drug addicts, shit in the streets, poor people sleeping in parks and sidewalks outweigh the natural beauty...besides, what you get for your housing dollars is ridiculous... crappy and small unless you make insane amounts of money.
Nope. My position wasn’t get homeless away from rich people. I guess that was yours.
Yeah, I completely misunderstood your reason for posting the link and thought you meant the opposite. My mistake!
It's not just that. Cities that are temperate year round are probably your best chance if you're homeless. Not to mention panhandlers can actually collect decent money at the right places. That said the housing and opioid crisis don't help.
Yep, and heroin has been an issue around here long before Oxy ever existed. The overcast sky’s can lead to seasonal effectiveness disorder, which also doesn’t help. And a culture where becoming homeless might be more socially accepted and you can find a sense of community in the camps. Kshama Sawant and other politicians are horribly misguided to solely scapegoat major corporations as the only factor to this crisis. Housing and inequality is just on piece of a very old pie. You should grab a beer at the Hooverville bar in SODO, it’s just one reference to Seattle’s long history of homelessness. Unfortunately context doesn’t matter when KOMO created their special.
Shitatle compared to Bellevue is like a shit hole compared to a beautiful garden. Hope Bellevue keeps it clean