We need to hire more cops and empower them to do their jobs of securing our city for all.
Ann Davison is remarkable in her basic competency and willingness to commit to and perform the basic job description of her office. The recent shift to the center by formerly progressives, and to the right by former centrists, is the logical outcome of the failure of civil society in places like Seattle, San Francisco and elsewhere. We have been conned by the defund movement, by "community activists" by the majority of our city council, and by most of the reporters in this publication. And if they make a statement that can be verified, you know, like being a Veteran, you ask for a copy of their DD-214 to see if they served and if they served honorably. Keep on covering the issue but please consider doing some deep dives on individuals on our streets. By various accounts, the Tiny Homes are seeing a modicum of success compared to many other approaches to the homeless in our town. The problem with the advocate class is they demean all those who they assume have zero agency and are incapable of making choices and being held to account for such choices. But expecting The Stranger to do any actual fact checking is naive, especially if the facts disprove the victim narrative. Maybe she deserves to be kicked out as she is toxic to others if her language reflects her general demeanor. Imagine the great beginning that her kids are or have endured. If she came, from where and why? She is a single mother. I would like to know why she is not employed, her origin story (did she come here or was she born here). I find myself wondering about her story, why she is chronically homeless, what her offenses were and if I would want her as a neighbor if I or someone I cared about lived next to her in another tiny home. Julia serves as a meme of sorts here, used to make a point.
The combined wealth of the top three billionaires grew more than 11 times over that same period - jumping from $23.8 billion (adjusted for inflation) in 1990 to $279 billion today. billionaires grew more than nine fold between 1990 and March 2020 - leaping from 66 to 614. During this time the economy cratered: 76 million people lost their jobs, 28 million fell ill with the virus and more than 500,000 died from COVID-19. added 50 billionaires during this period, increasing from 614 to 664. This increase in wealth is more than it would cost to send a stimulus check of $3,900 to every one of the roughly 330 million people in America. billionaires grew by $1.3 trillion during the roughly first eleven months of the coronavirus pandemic - a 44% spike in wealth. Please continue and extend this good work. But Seattle has here validated one of the oldest right-wing smears against government: "The government can do (with your tax money) what it can declare illegal for you to do (with your own money)."Īgain, thanks to the Stranger for FINALLY investigating these abuses. Why is it even legal for the city to provide money to LIHI, Share, or anybody else without "an agency to audit" what happens with that money? If a private, for-profit landlord treated tenants anything like what we've read in this article, half the Council would be yelling for legal action. We need to make sure that people aren't getting turfed out of tiny houses for arbitrary reasons,” he said.' Everyone's entitled to making sure that they're heard. However, if someone came to his office asking for an agency to audit the nonprofit, he wouldn’t be opposed. 'Lewis said he has yet to hear complaints about mishandled grievances or requests for oversight over LIHI. This is about as surprising as night following day, and yet the City Council continues spinelessly: Of course a vulnerable population, with no resources or appeals process, gets abused by petty bureaucrats playing God. Seattle's Homeless-Industrial Complex operates with a complete lack of transparency and accountability, and this story recounts some of the inevitable results. Thank the Stranger for FINALLY starting to investigate the Homeless-Industrial Complex in Seattle.
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