52.50% - Get people out of the elements first — no one should be sleeping outside in this climate. Shelter before everything else.
27.50% - Sanitation at encampments is better than nothing, but it doesn't solve the problem. Without shelter beds, service coordination, and mental health support, you're managing a crisis you should be ending.
20.00% - People are dying on Seattle's streets — if you wouldn't accept this level of crisis in any other domain of public life, you shouldn't accept it here.
Unmanaged encampments expand and conditions in them worsen over time.
50.00% - Sanctioned camps with services or designated shelter villages beat improvised camps with no coordination — you can address homelessness more humanely with a plan.
25.00% - Sanitation at encampments is better than nothing, but it doesn't solve the problem. Without shelter beds, service coordination, and mental health support, you're managing a crisis you should be ending.
25.00% - Get people out of the elements first — no one should be sleeping outside in this climate. Shelter before everything else.
50.00% - Unmanaged encampments expand and conditions in them worsen over time.
50.00% - Unmanaged encampments grow over time, which is itself an argument for faster shelter provision.
0.00% - If you don’t contain homeless camps they will only spread and get worse.