52.50% - 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.
27.50% - Until there's enough shelter, basic sanitation in encampments — portable toilets, trash collection — is harm reduction; you can't address a crisis by making it dirtier.
20.00% - Get people out of the elements first — no one should be sleeping outside in this climate. Shelter before everything else.
Seattle's homelessness crisis requires a coordinated city and county policy response.
50.00% - Until there's enough shelter, basic sanitation in encampments — portable toilets, trash collection — is harm reduction; you can't address a crisis by making it dirtier.
12.00% - 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.
12.00% - I'll support new homelessness spending when there's real accountability — show me the existing money is being well managed before asking for more.
12.00% - If reallocation has been genuinely exhausted and the homelessness crisis persists, additional revenue is warranted — it costs more untreated than treated.
8.00% - Most of Seattle's homeless population has local roots — treating the crisis as a magnet problem misidentifies both the cause and the solution.
6.00% - Many of Seattle's homeless are still working — in construction, service jobs, the gig economy — but can't afford housing on what they earn. They're local workers without a home.
50.00% - Seattle's homelessness crisis requires a coordinated city and county policy response.
50.00% - Homelessness at this scale requires deliberate intervention, accountability, and clear metrics.
0.00% - Seattle’s homelessness crisis needs a policy response from city and county government.
50.00% - Suicide methods