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We need affordable housing in this country, there just aren't enough rentals that people can afford. I'm not saying this extra tax is the answer, but the government could build affordable, smaller places for people to live in, instead of giving 70+ billion in foreign aid each year.
We need to do something, because our society relies on gas station attendants, cashiers, stock clerks etc They need somewhere to live too. Nobody should have to sleep outside and the blame game fixes nothing.
Nobody sleeps outside, go get roommates if you are gas station attendants, cashiers, stock clerks etc.
People sleeping outside are drug addicts who can't function normal.
Nobody sleeps outside, go get roommates if you are gas station attendants, cashiers, stock clerks etc.
People sleeping outside are drug addicts who can't function normal.
That's not entirely true, many people sleep outside in their vehicles. I've watched news stories cover one of the largest growing populations to sleep in their vehicles, are seniors who have been priced out of their rentals.
There are some people who work, but don't make enough to afford rentals they too sleep in their vehicles. As for the drug addicts mandatory drug rehab centers should help those people. Help them get clean and get off the street. I don't think they should sleep on sidewalks either and I see it every week.
I don't think it's right, never have. We're supposed to be one of the richest countries in the world, yet allow this for our citizens.
Well, being born and raised in Seattle, I will not live within, the city’s limits at all and under no circumstances would “I†ever move back into Seattle… Well, my ashes will be spread out within a park in Seattle, but that’s it!!
The Seattle City Council is in full r*tard mode and not realizing that the people who make a million plus a year will do what Amazon has done, simply move their high paying office jobs to Bellevue, which is right across the lake or to north/northeast to Kirkland.
Honestly, any money that the Seattle hopes to raise will not be spent on low income housing… Yes, a few token apartments, but that’s it and the rest will be lost within the city’s general funds, since their is ZERO accountability at all in that city.
I hope that most of these high earners do uproot themselves and move outside of Seattle city limits, even if it would cost them more than that proposed tax would charge them, just to stick a finger in their eye and sending an F’U message to the entire city leadership.
I rarely go into the city anymore and another “tax†they’re kicking around is turning most of the streets within the downtown area into toll roads to milk the people even more. I suspect that this will happen in 2025 since they will model the toll system that NYC has now in effect in Manhattan.
One of my daughters owns a business downtown and I’ve warned her over and over that Seattle socialist system will destroy the city’s small business economy and sadly, this has chased away many of her previous clients. I tell all my daughters to vote like your wallet depends on it AND if you keep voting Left, you will have noting Left in the end.
After 30 years living in the PNW it got crazier and crazier so we left. Seattle can still be a great city at times but you have to kind of ignore the craziness best you can.
That's not entirely true, many people sleep outside in their vehicles. I've watched news stories cover one of the largest growing populations to sleep in their vehicles, are seniors who have been priced out of their rentals.
There are some people who work, but don't make enough to afford rentals they too sleep in their vehicles. As for the drug addicts mandatory drug rehab centers should help those people. Help them get clean and get off the street. I don't think they should sleep on sidewalks either and I see it every week.
I don't think it's right, never have. We're supposed to be one of the richest countries in the world, yet allow this for our citizens.
That's what you read and people spread on the media, but that's far from reality.
I always take what's reported on the media with a grain of salt, especially when is usually issue tie to people's emotions and political views. But rather, I take a more common sense approach to these reports I hear about on the news.
I agree, rent has increase a lot recently. But take for example someone who has job, and their rent increase and now they can't pay the extra amount. This a very common story you hear on the media, and these people end up homeless or sleeping in their car as you suggested.
But here is where it doesn't make sense or add up.
How are you suppose to function and maintain a job living in your car or be homeless?
I know if it was me, my rent increase and I can't pay, I would do many things, like finding roommates, living with family temporarily or living with friends temporarily. Then living on the streets.
We need affordable housing in this country, there just aren't enough rentals that people can afford. I'm not saying this extra tax is the answer, but the government could build affordable, smaller places for people to live in, instead of giving 70+ billion in foreign aid each year.
We need to do something, because our society relies on gas station attendants, cashiers, stock clerks etc They need somewhere to live too. Nobody should have to sleep outside and the blame game fixes nothing.
This is local government in this thread, not the Fed.
Seattle isn't sending billions to other countries.
Don't start me on Seattle and its "low income housing". I worked ten years downtown and witnessed, how those ideas pen out. Sure, good for those who'll embezzle the funds lion's share, so why not? Well, at least, they have rainbow crosswalks. Way to go. That'll cure all the issues.
This is local government in this thread, not the Fed.
Seattle isn't sending billions to other countries.
If the federal government made sure everyone was housed, cities wouldn't gave to come up with solutions.
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