Seattle Parks are now Becoming a 'No-Go' Zone (Williams Place Park in Capitol Hill), Primarily due to Homelessness and Trash

"Homeless" are mostly Russian trolls planted by Putin to keep Trump in office.

The once nice, mostly Scandanavian fishermens neighborhood of Ballard is seeing druggie bums now, too.

In fact, there were homeless encampments in San Francisco in the 1990s. I can remember going by them on Market Street in 1994-95.

Progressive states are wealthy, while most conservative states are poor.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/richest-states-in-usa/

Sanders just released a plan to provide for affordable housing via rent control limitations on rent increases and to decrease homelessness.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/politics/bernie-sanders-housing.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

HiSailor wrote:

The once nice, mostly Scandanavian fishermens neighborhood of Ballard is seeing druggie bums now, too.

The Fremont and University neighborhoods are overrun by human cockroaches, too.

Uh, no there weren't. The city made a big deal out of not allowing the bums to camp out. I personally witnessed, on many occasions at Civic Center Park, the police rousting the urchins and tossing their shopping carts into trash trucks. I also frequented areas on the edge of the Tenderloin because my office was on Golden Gate. There were NO encampments anywhere in the city in those days. There were plenty of junkies on the streets of the Tenderloin, but they dared not stick around very long or else the SFPD would pick them up. Those were far better days.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

In fact, there were homeless encampments in San Francisco in the 1990s. I can remember going by them on Market Street in 1994-95.

Why would homeless people rather sleep outside than go to a shelter?

Maybe it’s because they don’t want to be around a bunch of drug addicts with mental problems...

Do you practice being an icehole?

Umm, duh? wrote:

Why would homeless people rather sleep outside than go to a shelter?

Maybe it’s because they don’t want to be around a bunch of drug addicts with mental problems...

This is true. I know someone who lives in his Toyota Corolla and I asked him why he doesn't go to a shelter he said that exact thing. If you're avsingle male, if you can find a bed, you are houses with drug addicts, alcoholics, thueves, perverts and every other deviant you can think of. He feelsvsafer in his Corolla on the street. Dudes big too, 6'3" and about 210.. Can you imagine this poor guy sleeping in a Corolla?

If I was homeless in Seattle I would just go to the park and watch jamin do tempo and fartlek runs around it. When he is recovering afterwards I would go up to him and ask if he has room for one more in his place.

So it’s like the Oval Office?

Prez about to go, check.

Occupant about to be homeless, check.

Currently full of trash, check!

Banana Bread wrote:

If I was homeless in Seattle I would just go to the park and watch jamin do tempo and fartlek runs around it. When he is recovering afterwards I would go up to him and ask if he has room for one more in his place.

I don't think Jamin's Mom's basement is big enough for the two of them but it's worth a try.

The vast majority of homeless people are homeless because they are unwilling or mentally incapable to work, stay off drugs, or follow laws of society. SOMETIMES it is not their fault (they were born with schizophrenia, etc), but most of the time, they are people who have made many, many, MANY terrible choices their entire lives. It is naive at best to think they will ever be functional members of society or that they even have any value to society. I say this as someone whose brother is a homeless person. You could spend literally a million dollars just on my brother alone and the best outcome you could possibly hope for is that he'd end up being somewhat functional living in a halfway house, and by somewhat functional I mean he'd only commit crimes occasionally (rather than constantly) and would be able to hold down a manual labor job as long as they were fine with him missing a day here and there for no reason.

It is utterly bizarre to me that people in these different West Coast cities just tolerate this nonsense, even encourage it (or at least incentivize it). The problem has gotten exponentially worse in the last decade, and it will continue to get worse too as long as these dreamers with no sense of reality remain in power. Absolutely insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw

Simples, actually wrote:

Yep, move the problem else where.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-busing-program-homeless

It saves the public a bunch of money if you buy them a one way bus ticket to LA when the weather starts to turn bad. Legal weed, better weather and even more progressives to get stoned with and feel sorry for their lot in life.

Or the 1% could hunt the homeless. Buy a pricy hunting license and let the richest hunt the poorest. Admittedly it's little draconian, but it solves the problem.

comedyrelief wrote:

Simples, actually wrote:

Yep, move the problem else where.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-busing-program-homeless

It saves the public a bunch of money if you buy them a one way bus ticket to LA when the weather starts to turn bad. Legal weed, better weather and even more progressives to get stoned with and feel sorry for their lot in life.

They used to do this back in the 80's. It got the nickname "bus therapy". It doesn't solve the problem. It just moves it to somewhere else.