Unsanctioned Camping is Unsafe! Fully Fund Compassionate Intervention!

Barbara

We can not allow the homeless to take over Seattle. Its not clean or safe. We need shelters and the homeless need to use the shelters. Camping in public spaces is not the answer.

It's really simple - if we want to help homeless we need to not accept them living in horrible conditions, for the safety of everyone, them and others. We need to fund treatment and housing. One without the other won't solve the problem.

Kshama Sawant needs to be removed from the city council.

We need a better solution!

At some point, adults need to bear responsibility for life and their actions. It’s that simple. I’m guessing 1/2 or more of these “residents” could get back on their feet. But why do that man, when you get free clean needles and free handouts. Yeah man, Let’s All be stoned, lazy and homeless together. That’s “united” according to some mayoral campaign promises. Yeah that’s real progress. Are you kidding me....”Affordable housing” is political speak for raise tax’s and fund programs to keep homeless people comfortably homeless that will keep voting for “progress” and other liberal left causes. The sad thing is that the left elite in Seattle are actually starting to believe that these programs work. There is a “zero” percent probability that affordable housing will work with those that are “residents”, because they have no discipline, pride of place and are perpetually offered handouts from the sanctuary alter of Seattle. The other half of the “residents” who truly need help and handouts will always be in that state, so that can be addressed as a true safety net. But I vote not to fund free-vape sidewalks for 1/2 of our “residents”. He’ll yes I’ll vote to Clean this mess up.

As a sanctioned (Green Seattle Partnership) volunteer forest steward for 3 Seattle Parks in the NW section of the City, I would like to share my concern with allowing encampments in the urban forests. Sensitive riparian areas have been impacted, and will be affected again. Convenience trails have been carved, and soil contaminated. Human waste can be toxic to wetlands and streams.

A policy is a much better solution than the current approach of "tolerance", which is not a policy!

Jean

About Time

Please also provide mental health and addiction recovery services. This problem is completely out of control. Shame on the city!!

This blight needs to stop.

TREATMENT!!! Job help.....Home help....shelter help.

Sawant's proviso treats homeless people as having no more responsibility than squirrels, birds and homeless cats.

We regularly find hypodermic needles, trash, alcohol bottles and cans, and have witnessed escalated and violent interactions with homeless people at our local parks and playfields. I support helping solve the homeless crisi in Seattle, but Sawant's proposal is not the way.

Clean this up, when will it end? You can't continue to enable people to come from far and near to camp in our city.

Please strike down Sawant's proviso and clean-up dangerous and illegal encampments while providing services to people to get them off our streets.

The "proviso" is not only create a situation that could be a health hazard to the general public, it puts homeless people in danger. Most of our green spaces were set aside because they are not safe places for habitation. Most also lack the facilities for dealing with human waste and refuse. If the city goes forward with this "proviso," there must at least be a full SEPA review to determine the environmental and health hazards it would enable.

We need to use the best practices and evidence-based interventions to help move people off the streets and into housing. This is a addiction and mental health public emergency and we can't afford to jettison effective programs for the sake of well-meaning but misguided ideology.

Yes, this a sad problem...I want to help !