Aaaaand the pull quote that ties the whole thing together:
Headlines about a nightmare tenant and a homeless landlord get more attention than stories about a somewhat rudderless guy from a privileged background making a hash of managing his father’s property. Hunter said The Seattle Times didn’t even contact him before running Roth’s self-serving version of the story.
62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, homelessness rates continue to rise in Seattle, yet the Times continually choses to eschew reality and side with the conservative minority in the city.
During the 7 week strike in 2001 the Times fired striking workers and hired scabs “permanently”. Part of the final deal was to rehire union members and let go of the scabs. But they quickly downsized in the following year, this was really the start of them utilizing syndicated reports instead of having a robust journalism team.
Seattle needs to -completely- separate the homeless dilemma from the hands of ALL government agencies. The money just goes down some rat-hole and/or to padding their worthless existence after they do some self-promoting hand-waving. FAIL FAIL FAIL.
Good things don’t happen, just more stalling. For decades. Take it away from the City of Stall.
Helsinki is the same size, and had its program going great guns 5-10 years ago … -big- reductions by then. It starts with a home. A stable place to get your life together.
Yeah the NPR weekend roundup talked about the city ending this program, and cited the costs as a reason for shutting it down- and strangely, there was zero mention of Seattle adding $20M to what it spends on police.
So, instead of dealing with homelessness by helping the homeless out of it, they’ve elected to re-org Seattle DOT back into SPD.
I was about shouting at the radio asking them when they’d consider funding homelessness outreach out of cuts to the police budget but noooo Seattle media people seem to think the answer to any problem is cops
Fucking hell. Who the fuck do I have to vote against to get this reinstated? Literally the best program we could have hoped for to have a permanent solution for the issue at hand
While I sympathize with those who don't have houses to sleep in, as a disabled person, I will point out that blocking the sidewalk at all makes it unusable for many disabled people. Not just "completely blocking" the sidewalk, as is mentioned in this article. It does constantly feel that the city and the country care more for the homeless than they do for the disabled. It sure would be nice if they really cared about either.
I mean, surely we all already knew that his saying the sweeps and clean up of the area were unrelated was a lie. He should have just been open about it.
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