56.25% - Get people out of the elements first — no one should be sleeping outside in this climate. Shelter before everything else.
22.50% - 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.
11.25% - King County has struggled to convert emergency shelter into permanent supportive housing at the scale the crisis demands — political will and resourcing have been intermittent at best.
10.00% - Unsanctioned encampments expand when left unmanaged — that's the argument for moving faster on shelter, not for tolerating indefinite growth of improvised camps.
Government should designate land for sanctioned shelters rather than tolerate improvised encampments.
61.25% - Get people out of the elements first — no one should be sleeping outside in this climate. Shelter before everything else.
20.00% - King County has struggled to convert emergency shelter into permanent supportive housing at the scale the crisis demands — political will and resourcing have been intermittent at best.
9.38% - 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.
9.38% - Micro-shelter villages on vacant city lots are a faster path to dignity than waiting years for permanent housing.
25.00% - Government should designate land for sanctioned shelters rather than tolerate improvised encampments.
25.00% - A sanctioned shelter site with coordinated services is preferable to scattered improvised encampments.
25.00% - Government should designate land for sanctioned shelters rather than allow improvised encampments.
0.00% - The government should designate land for basic shelters to house the homeless and centralize services rather than allow improvised camps.
50.00% - List of concentration and internment camps