Stop Seattle From Turning Our Parks Into Homeless Encampments

This is not the right solution. Look what happened in Portland when they tried this for 6 months.

Please vote no on this ordinance. Save our parks!

Please keep the neighborhoods and parks safe and livable

This is not a way to help the homeless!

I am against the council's idea of allowing camping by people who do not have housing

My family cancelled our Mariner Season Tickets - over $5000 - due to the "homeless" drug addicts that attacked my son.

this needs to end NOW!

Please do not let this pass for the sake of our children.

This is highly irresponsible. Fix the issue (by creating low-income housing), not the symptom.

Please don't do it. There are better ways to help these poor people than letting them camp in our parks and streets. Start building more low-income housing!

Parks are not the answer unless the park is exclusively for the homeless. Interlaken Park for example is carpeted with undergrowth and hidden places that make the park unsafe for everyone, including the homeless. The city needs to do better by the homeless and find them permanent and affordable homes where they are safe. It would be great if each neighborhood could sponsor a site in order to spread the expenses and inconvenience around. Right now the international district and north end of Beacon Hill are expected to bear the brunt of the homeless problem which is unacceptable.

How is this better than the Jungle under I-5? This law will spread the encampments across the city not diminish the number of homeless people. City parks close at night for a reason - they are not meant to be camp grounds. Please take the time necessary to study the impacts rather than enact a flawed law. Please vote no on this proposal.

Dear Seattle City Council Members: As the plight of homelessness has become an embarrassment within the City of Seattle, so too has the city council’s misguided solutions regarding the location of encampments. The city council’s legislative proposal is inadequate, simplistic, short-sighted, and even counterproductive. With the swiftness of panic, the council has taken the path of least accountability, putting forth a proposal that makes them feel good but does not actually acknowledge, address, or resolve the multi-facets of this chronic problem. Homelessness and its many causes can no longer be ignored, nor should we procrastinate in addressing its devastating and seemingly endless impact on Seattle. At the same time, any discussion needs to be inclusive of the many factors that have led to the present situation. This includes health and safety issues, various impacts on local communities, and long-term solutions to the numerous causes of homelessness, such as mental illness, drugs, etc. But instead of treating the homeless with respect and seeing in them the potential to succeed, the city has taken the easy way out: just let them camp wherever they want to, including our parks. Marginalizing the homeless by ignoring or isolating them has been a complete failure, but allowing them to flounder, with a nomadic lifestyle, does not provide them with any sense of belonging, stability, and dignity, nor does it give them the lifting hand they need to stop the endless cycle of hopelessness. There is hope and it comes from Council Member Tim Burgess. Mr. Burgess has reflected in depth on the upcoming legislation, questioning exactly what the city hopes to achieve. His analyses provide both insight and pragmatism. Therefore, our family hereby announces our support for his efforts. We believe that the city council needs to heed his words of caution, respectfully engage in a conversation of his ideas, and slow down the entire process until a truly inclusive, com

This is asinine!

This is not the right plan, use common sense

NO BUENO!!!

We live in a beautiful city. PLEASE don't ruin it by letting our parks and other public areas be invaded by homeless. There must be another solution. PLEASE

This is not the solution.

Already tried and repealed in Portland. Why are trying the same thing, but for longer?

Nnoooooooo!!!! :(