Seattle has become a cesspool for homelessness. Our cucked mayor (who is literally a homosexual) has completely failed the city. Portland is equally enveloped in a homelessness crisis.
What is the solution to the homelessness problem?
We cannot allow the homeless to have free reign to sleep wherever they want like they do in Seattle. The mayor cites compassion for fellow humans, but what about compassion for all the other citizens that have to deal with trash, needles, sleeping bodies literally on the sidewalk etc. Not to mention the flood of homeless into the city from other regions. I understand that a lot of homeless are mentally ill or just prefer to sleep on the street. No amount of housing or assistance will help them.
Work Camps, give em a salary and structure instead of letting them rot drinking themselves to death.
Joseph Hill
Kill all the hipsters.
Joshua Russell
Who cares Seattle is full of niggers anyway.
Thomas Bailey
fucking homeless people should just go home
assholes
Liam Cruz
very few niggers in seattle actually. Renton yes, seattle proper is too expensive.
Luis Fisher
>Seattle is liberal as fuck >All I ever hear about it is the homeless problem
(((Liberalism))). Not even once.
Brandon Roberts
The homeless aren't flooding into the city from other areas. Why the hell do people keep believing this meme?
Thomas Cook
Washingtonian here.. Currently going to school at CWU and am on spring break. I took a trip over to Seattle to visit a friend then traveled down to Oregon (Hillsboro area) and took many trips to Portland and its getting worse and worse. I hate how fucking dumb the leadership has got in these two states. My suggestion? Halt all immigration and defund all pointless government ran agencies, cut some foreign aid, and get them on their feet so they can contribute to society, or send them to some sort of institution.
Justin Wood
>literally have a socialist in the city council >all she ever does is start shit flinging cry fests
Luis Rogers
Pretty sure you don't live in the area man. I have seen it first hand. They flood to Seattle and Portland. Portland more in my opinion.
Hudson Barnes
If you tried to use them as day labor youd get arrested. A government style TVA project would never work because the the red tape and background checks and irs forms and osha codes and unions and minority quotas and women equal pay.
The days of handing a man a shovel and an honest days work are over.
John Lee
I've lived in Seattle for 20 years. Most homeless people here are from here. There was just a big study on it.
Brandon Perry
Yes please. Murray's faggot ass needs to be gassed immediately on sight if one of you guys gets a hold of him. While you're at it get rid of Inslee for aiding and abetting this.
Eli Lee
you my grandparents as teenagers back in fascist Romania used to go out and look for unemployed drunks and homeless people to beat up and bully them into finding work or else they would be arrested for being leeches by the local police. Maybe the people in Seattle and Portland could do something similar
Nicholas Foster
>when you vote for a hyperloop for transporting homeless to the injection sites funded by a 300% hike in car tabs but it's OK because you don't own a car
Jason King
*you know
Ian Williams
It sure seems like they are. The jungle (Largest Seattle homeless encampment) is a hotspot for heroin. Homeless activities are tolerated by the city. The cops don't bother them, let them shoot up and throw their needles everywhere. Its much like a sanctuary city for the homeless.
I even saw an encampment on my way home on the side off the freeway on a 30 degree slope. Its getting bad.
Nice, I'm a CWU alum. I would be happy to pay more in taxes for better mental healthcare If it helped with this problem.
Tyler Baker
>We cannot allow the homeless to have free reign to sleep wherever they want like they do in Seattle.
It's actually a constitutional right.
William Mitchell
if they're homeless its because you're not doing enough
John Nelson
>STG3
Leo Hernandez
>tfw no Right Wing Encouragement Squads
Brody Garcia
Any fellow fags here living in their car?
Dominic Baker
>ST3*
Ryder Jones
I'm not arguing that, I think we are both agreeing in a sense. I see people from Bellingham, Spokane, Tri Cities, etc. Flood over to Seattle or Portland. The past 5 years I feel like it has got a lot worse.
Anthony James
Enact alot of laws making the shit they normally do within city limits illegal.
It increases fines, gives lawyers and cops work to do, and you send them off to prison where they;re forced to work in exchange for a roof over their head and 3 meals a day
Angel Green
Don't "use" them as day labor. Just provide good incentives for working at labor camps and harsher penalties for vagrancy.
Ian Harris
>giving Israel over 200 billion over the next 8 years yeah I agree. i know where we can get the money too
Parker Ward
> Right Wing Encouragement Squads >here to encourage you to not be pathetic leeches
I like the sound of that
Nolan Reed
Wildcats FTW! Year or 2017. I'm 27. Hit the college years a bit late.
Evan Russell
Areas run by leftists have massive homeless problems. Coincidence?
Justin Murphy
They just cleaned out The Jungle, and the other camp where they moved just a few days ago.
It has gotten worse, but I think it has more to do with skyrocketing rents displacing people who were out of sight before.
Back then homeless were just fathers who were just going to the store for a pack of smokes. Thats illegal now, almost 100% of homeless have a warrant or have some arrestable offense theyre committing.
Landon Johnson
>all these Central cucks who couldn't get into UW
But at least you don't have to deal with the Antifa scum that comes to our campus to start shit at the most inopportune times. No joke I got fucking stalked by them one day for no reason.
Dylan Powell
Olywa reporting in.
Shit is so fucked here you have no idea. There is a group that is protesting because they want the city to provide free camp grounds for the homeless.
Hunter Moore
About to be in week here user. Looking forward to it desu, I have a shit load of camping supplies, and plenty of wilderness to fag out in
Dominic Reed
Get out of the cities when you can. And if Inslee continues to pass more lunatic legislation that's enabling homeless to camp out in areas as far as the suburbs, go far, far away. I legitimately fear Inslee is about to go nuclear with this state in the future.
Julian Wilson
You know my friend and I were talking all about the growing industries with Starbucks, Intel, Boeing, Microsoft, Nike, Google, etc. I can see that. I feel that we should push more education programs for lower income individuals. Idk I'm pretty harsh on people having a hard time finding a job, I feel it is very easy. Obviously there is a demand for more money, but spending time complaining not having a good enough paying job when they wont take minimum wage to start while looking for something better sounds ridiculous to me. If I were homeless, I'd go to Wenatchee or Ellensburg. Rent is like 1/3 of Seattles and there are plenty of jobs out here. Nice to talk to another Washingtonian!
Joshua Reyes
Thats my point, the buerocracy we live in means it'd be next to impossible to usher them into a TVA style work camp today, even if they wanted to work, and most probably would.
Jaxson Reyes
Portland LITERALLY busses homeless into seattle. KYS shill. Seattle is a cess pool progressive, safe city. Glass it.
Jackson Gray
>tfw want to go to daily dozen but harassed by nigger hobos
>tfw want to smoke but harassed by genderless aliens
>tfw want to shoot guns but harassed by communists
Jaxon Lewis
Nice thats a good interesting article. Im glad to hear they cleaned the jungle out.
Is this plan of action necessary in this study though?
>Support for LGBTQ homeless, especially LGBTQ youth.
Makes me question the study as a production of liberal propaganda to make the mayor not look so bad.
Charles Bell
Lel, I just became homeless and I'm on my way to portland now.
Cooper Parker
>not going to top pot instead kys
Luke Gomez
I applied to UW and got denied so yes I couldn't get in. To be fair I am a white male and come from a fairly well off family which didnt help my chances.
Daniel Bailey
Finishing my Bachelors degree about to start a 70+K job while my friends at UW and WSU cry at their Mcdonalds jobs, they are fairly liberal and went for soft majors so it does not really surprise me. Funny quote though.
Ethan Roberts
I wouldnt be opposed to paying for extra housing for the homeless if it cleans the surrounding cities up. The only problem would be the exploitation and improper usage of these places.
Alexander Turner
>tfw my city's weather is too harsh and politicians too conservative for the homeless to thrive here so we hardly have any Feels fucking good man
Aaron Martin
After 1 week without coming i would hit her smack addict ass...
Oregon reporting in. It's really really bad in Portland, and a few other spots in Oregon are bad as well. Tons of homeless on the coast. A huge chunk of them have severe mental issues, as in they are legitimately crazy and I'm not sure simply giving them a shovel and a hard day's work (ignoring all the red tape involved) would even work for them.
Robert Allen
Have a pulse? WSU will accept you no problem! You queer? WWU will accept you no problem! Hate your family and want to get away? EWU will accept you no problem. Want a little bit of everything? CWU is the place for you.
Bentley Bell
If you sleeping in a car you arent really homeless.
Cameron Rivera
With very few exceptions, the homeless suffer from untreated mental illness, addiction or both. They show up on the streets after alienating every relative and friend who tried and failed to help them.
Liberals closed mental hospitals and made it nearly impossible for families to commit relatives against their will, at a time when liberals were claiming that mental illness didn't exist. The money that once paid for the care of lost souls was diverted to gibmedats.
The solution is simple. Make it easier to put people who clearly can't function outside an institution in an institution, and see to it they stay there.
William Turner
This must be recent. I'm also surprised because Affrimative Action is illegal here yet people do it anyways. Confused as to why. Are they this cuck?
Nigger, I work a 75k job and I got my degree in Informatics. You're right about the Humanities faggots though.
Bentley Morris
Lol pretty much.
Elijah Scott
I want to. Just get a fucking e150 and trick it out
Andrew Martinez
Look I hate leftist bullshit n all. I usually get called "rare based leaf" mainly because I'm an old fart so not so liberal but here's something you won't want to hear...
U.S.A. has a lot of unfair anti-vagrancy laws. >have no home >sleep outside >get fined for sleeping outside >even poorer than before
If Washington isn't fining/arresting people for vagrancy that'd be why they move there. See one state or city may have an anti-vagrancy laws, it doesn't get rid of the homeless it just forces them to move somewhere else.
Adolf Hitler and Jesus Christ were both homeless. You may or may not respect them but I know a lot of people here do respect one or the other or both... so consider that...
Julian Torres
I agree that there are plenty of jobs here. I think breaking up the monopoly SHARE/WHEEL has on homeless services would be a good first step. Migrating to eastern WA is an option if people have the means to get there, but the harsh winters probably keep homeless people away.
Citation on your wild claims needed, but you probably exhausted your brain trying to decide whether to call me a shill or a cuck.
We need less planning and more action. We had the "10 Year Plan to End Homelessness" and it was a complete failure. Models like in SLC seem to have good results.
Dylan Gutierrez
I totally agree with this. Now prisons are the new mental hospitals which is detrimental to the normal inmates and the people who need special treatment for mental illness. We need more mental hospitals and better mental health laws.
David Lopez
Hipsters are douchebags and look like homeless but are not homeless. The homeless guys are the ones with the filthy backpacks on the light rail. The real problem is all those jackasses who block the sidewalk to sell homemade CDs.
Ian Perry
trump ran on a policy of tax and regulatory reductions... HMMM....
Needs to build a giant as fuck wall under budget... HMmmmm...
understands how much homos and homelessos devalue property value, as if he has an understanding of making america great again.
Nathaniel Price
I applied to UW in 2006.
Isaiah Sanders
top pot looks like hipster shit i walk by it when i go onto campus
Joshua Morgan
you will NOT get a mentally ill crack head whos been homeless for 10 years into a work camp.
Jaxson Harris
Hey man all power to you. These people virtue signal daily and believe that Trump is ruining their lives on a daily basis. I feel no matter where you are on politics, your success is due to your mindset. I feel that the left has a weaker mindset when it comes to personal success and an inner locus of control.
Logan Davis
Zero tolerance policy. If you sleep in public spaces within city limits you are thrown in jail to await the day when there are enough homeless to fill a bus. When a bus can be filled they are driven to the top of Snoqualmie pass and dropped off. If they want to live in a tent they can freeze in the mountains. If during the jail period you can find a relative anywhere in the country to take you in, you will be given a bus ticket to their residence.
Caleb Thompson
I had to pay $266 to renew my tabs just fuck my shit up
Alexander Carter
Yeah I do not enjoy walking to class with the -1F temp in the winters
Matthew Morgan
You leave. If they think you don't deserve a good quality of life they don't deserve your tax dollars.
Lucas Long
top pot is pretty good. Obama ate doughnuts which is unfortunate.
Eli Johnson
>23yo woman >living under a bridge You could give her a free house and basic income and she'll still sell her body for heroine. >we should legalize all dr-
Lucas Ward
Doesn't even need to be work camps, just pay for infrastructure spending and stop insisting the government be run like a fortune 500 corporation.
David Robinson
ate doughnuts at top pot*
Jayden Thompson
Fagget, jewgle that shit yourself, and save your derisive barbs for your buttfucking fagget reddit fucks.
Josiah James
Could do that but there's no way it would happen in Seattle. The cops already have enough work to do wrangling the ((((protests)))).
More cops not always better, most of them look like the guys in Counter Strike with flak jackets and gas masks to write parking tickets and enforce bike helmet law. Seriously.
pic related, local """""journalists""""" who reads trending tweets on the local news
Nicholas Green
we were always a komo family
Gavin Ward
Ya they are all from fly over middle States. These kids don't realize how expensive the coast is.
Tyler Flores
Yeah, I'm legit worried about the future of this school though. They're incorporating SJW shit in STEM fields including my major, I recently just got my Master's so I'm free from this. Question is if I want to stay here where I grew up my whole life or get a job somewhere else before Inslee and Murray incorporate fucking income tax as a citywide expense.
Hudson Morris
>Pacific NW >rich white kids >LARP as bums for the feels i can't take white bums seriously desu
Christian Butler
Awww, what's wrong? Did your black step dad come home drunk tonight and beat your ass? Sorry about that champ.
Jace Hernandez
hey fags! we can share my iPhone charger
Elijah Allen
Hard time should be served in chain gangs fixing the infrastructure of thid country. Privatized prison is a scam, and does nothing for the people that hsve committed crimes, or, for society itself.
Sebastian Jones
So I am both getting a job and doing some entrepreneurial stuff on the side and it sucks because I need to start learning all about how the taxes and regulations are by the state. I love the west coast so much, but I hate how anti-small business the coast is :/
Robert Moore
Thats what I thought. All logical assertions gone, you resort to petty insults in an attempt to trigger me. Fuck off reddit fag, then KYS
Thomas Gutierrez
Thanks post-modernism and feminism.
Christopher Richardson
Here in San Diego we have a huge homeless problem, parts of downtown are turning into tent citys literally entire city blocks with tents lining the sidewalks. I see one on every corner with a sign and see at least 3-4 sleeping when I walk to my car every morning and I live about 4 miles from homeless ground zero.
I stopped giving a shit a long time ago I would welcome a flamethrower at this point. They have had some crazy idea's on how to get them off the streets. My favorite was when we had the World Series they just cleared out all the homeless and put in huge jagged rocks so it looked like we only have a mild case of homelessness.
This city is fucked, it's getting bad enough that Comic Con, one of the only things keeping this city afloat, is threatening to pull out of the city if they don't do something at least when it's in town.
Logan Murphy
You PNW faggots think homelessness is bad, go to San Francisco, literally cannot get lunch anywhere without smelling bum piss. At least in Seattle they try to hide until sunset.
Matthew Hughes
been thinking about starting a charity for homeless >'booze 4 the homeless'
helps stimulate the alcohol and medical industries (as everyone starts needing dialysis); and if they can't get the help they need from hospitals, or it gets too cold out... they disappear! on their own!
Nathaniel Robinson
You have never been to Portland my friend...
Blake Gomez
>San Diego >Comic Con, one of the only things keeping this city afloat
what
Zachary Wood
not true. I ate lunch at a pub a few weeks ago and got a nice window seat.
Right outside a guy was sleeping literally in the middle of the sidewalk. 3 feet away from the window. All the SJWs and hipsters just stepped right over him. Disgusting.
Landon Garcia
I've been to SF and it IS pretty fucking bad. We're right behind though.
Hudson Long
I could see that. Mostly used to watch for qt news girl but she's getting older, more feminist and putting on more makeup these days.
pic related, her in prime
Christopher Wilson
>solution to the homelessness problem? The hungry should eat the homeless.
Hunter Murphy
What is drug induced psychosis > aka self inflicted
Ayden Bell
That's fairly normal, even worse the police don't actually enforce any loitering laws.
Parker Murphy
HOLY SHIT! your homeless have the technology to make Compact Disks at home?
Jace Nguyen
Honestly, there's NO enforcement of using the light trail train. Why does Seattle let the homeless freeload on transit?
Jayden Lewis
Patty Murry is a massively shitty senator as well. She big pharma gives her more money than almost any other senator. The Alaskan way viaduct project is a disaster as well. It wont even be fucking finished for 20 years.
Camden Watson
holy shit, sauce on that? looks like such a perfect pussy