Seattle is expensive so people struggling to afford housing should go somewhere cheaper.
30.00% - Telling Seattle's unhoused to move somewhere cheaper ignores the family ties that bind people to a place — that's not a policy, it's indifference.
27.50% - Unsanctioned encampments expand when left unmanaged — that's the argument for moving faster on shelter, not for tolerating indefinite growth of improvised camps.
22.50% - Sanctioned camps with services or designated shelter villages beat improvised camps with no coordination — you can address homelessness more humanely with a plan.
20.00% - 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.
0.00% - Seattle is expensive so people struggling to afford housing should go somewhere cheaper.