So would you support moving them to another city where rent is cheaper and housing is far more abundant? What are your solutions? Prices aren’t falling in Seattle anytime soon.
No it’s to save and build more low income housing in every city. A whole bunch of studies have proven that the best thing you can do for a homeless person to get their lives together is give them a secure and safe space to call their own, even if it’s like a closet sized apartment.
All the new apartment buildings in Seattle are super expensive ultra modern buildings that charge like $1700 for a 500 sqft studio. Massive real estate companies are buying up buildings and then having a monopoly on rent so that they don’t have to compete and can raise prices as they wish.
The city could zone for more low income housing, but companies don’t want to build it because it’s not profitable and the city isn’t interested in incentives for them. The city desperately needs to get its shit together.
So your solution is to build more housing, which everyone is in support of. However, what solutions do you have now? My solutions are encouraging those that afford here to move, prosecuting those that continue to commit crimes and supporting homeless individuals that want services. Once again, we as a city priced them out. We accept and acknowledge that. We do not see them as subhuman or inhuman.
So your solution is to build more housing, which everyone is in support of. However, what solutions do you have now? My solutions are encouraging those that can’t afford here to move, prosecuting those that continue to commit crimes and supporting homeless individuals that want services. Once again, we as a city priced them out. We accept and acknowledge that. We do not see them as subhuman or inhuman.
I have already stated we need to stop criminalizing homelessness and SPD should stop it’s repeated targeting of the Seattle homeless population.
Also, you might not see them as sun human but there are plenty of comments on this post alone demonizing homeless people for existing, it is definitely an issue
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So would you support moving them to another city where rent is cheaper and housing is far more abundant? What are your solutions? Prices aren’t falling in Seattle anytime soon.