The guardian? Mental illness? Economic hardship?

These false excuses are what helped kill my uncle and my sister and are what's killing my nephew.

It's drugs. Basically all of it, the amount that isn't is a rounding error.

No more excuses or dispensationalism. Wake up. The fake liberal talking points are killing people and bleeding our money to do it.

Good insights

I do want to point out that Finland’s population is only 5.5 million, and in the 13 years they’ve been working on this, the homeless population decreased from about 20,000, to 5500.

It’s a little tougher with nearly 600,000 homeless in the U.S.

The other problem is that you can offer housing, but can’t force someone to take it.

They used to commit people, but not anymore.

I’m all for trying something new, however, because a good portion of the tens of millions a year spent on it, gets pissed away...

Union Gospel Mission are good places to start.

If you really want to help them, get them arrested. Do whatever you need to (legally) to do it.

Let me elaborate. The Komo and King5 and Kiro7 pieces and shows and documentaries done on this over the years shows that 99.9% of all the 11,000~ or so "homeless" on the streets who refuse shelter are essentially all substance abusers and/or major mental health cases most of whom also abuse drugs. And when I say drugs I mean heavy narcotics.

Voluntary treatment doesn't work. The Rhode Island MAT interviews all show that, those inmates ALL said that if they hadn't been arrested they would have died on the street.

Let me tell you what happened to me.
As a child I watched one of my uncles descend into heroin and meth. He never held a steady job, was often asking family for money, he was in and out of treatment centers and jail, depending on the week. Eventually he died in his early 50s from several different conditions, mostly as a result of heroin and meth damage to his organs. His death was miserable, I will never forget seeing him in the hospital bed, hooked up to so many machines I could not count. His skin was pale and discolored, his eyes were droopy and lifeless. His hair was thinning and falling out. He looked like he was 100 years old, like a zombie. He was always writhing around in the bed moaning and jerking. The doctors told us he had used so many drugs that they thought it was making him resistant to the pain meds they were trying on him, and they were reluctant to use heavier ones. He lingered in that state for almost 2 months before his organs failed and he died. It was torture for him and for his family, us, to witness. This is how the heroin and meth stories really end. There are no successful 90 year-olds who are happy, retired and healthy who use heroin or meth. I remember my parents telling me how they begged and pleaded with authorities to keep our uncle locked up, that if he was in jail long enough he’d break the addiction. As it was the short stays and repeated failures in optional rehabs just prolonged his misery and eventual death.

Then I watched a cousin begin this journey. She had started out OK in life and even went to college, but then heroin got her so wrapped up that all she cared about was the drug. She began stealing and luckily, she eventually stole an expensive car and it forced her into prison in another state and cut off from her suppliers and friends. This saved her life. In prison she was forced to get clean and kick her addiction. Once she was out of the withdrawal period she recognized what had happened to her. Years later she is a productive member of society and has a new family and a career. If she had not spent over a year locked up she would have eventually died as well.

I am currently watching my nephew slowly die on heroin and meth. He started using drugs when he was 17. Unfortunately he also has a young daughter. He has never held a job down for more than 2 months, and most of the time he gets fired for failing drug tests or blowing off work or coming to work intoxicated. He began robbing people to support his drug habit, did some short time in local jail, but not enough to get clean. After he got out he disappeared into the “homeless” population. Occasionally he’ll surface on social media and send word to his parents, although the last time they heard from him was almost 2 years ago. When he started living on the streets everyone in our family begged and pleaded with 2 different regional county sheriffs to arrest him on any number of felony and misdemeanor drug and property offenses, even one violent charge. However the politically correct Puget Sound governments that wink and nod to the Homeless Industrial Complex would not act to save his life. Voluntary treatment does not work. We expect a call any day now that he is found dead on the side of the road somewhere, and there is nothing we can do to stop it.

Don't give them money. Don't give them any material or financial assistance. There is already a BILLION dollars LOCALLY a year spent on them helping them to kill themselves, which works out to almost 100 grand each, which is still higher than the median salary in WA, and that's insane. If you really want to help them, get them arrested for the crimes they commit and maybe you'll save their life. Maybe it won't save their life but it's literally their only chance.

My sister also died this way, but it's too recent and too raw still for me to talk about it. Maybe in a few years.

What I want everyone to get from this is when you hear the bullshit liberal whining about "economic inequality" and "intersectional discrimination/hardship" that you recognize it for what it is. These liberals aren't just homeless pumps, they are accessories to murder and I hold them partly responsible for the continued deaths. People caught up in heavy additions cannot reason for themselves, THAT'S WHY WE HAVE LAWS AGAINST NARCOTICS USE. But these "woke" drug use defenders who give out needles and help people to kill themselves want us to ignore the law and let people die.

They are sick. And frankly they deserve to be in prison as well.

My sister also died this way, but it's too recent and too raw still for me to talk about it. Maybe in a few years.

Our research into the Homeless Industrial Complex (HIC) began with a dig into Rep. Frank Chopp (43rd district). Frank Chopp was recently described as “the Architect” by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, and for good reason. Chopp has been central in constructing the Seattle area HIC.

In following the strand of his career in politics it became clear that we were attempting to unscramble a giant can of worms. This map represents a first attempt at that work.

The truth about it is that we are only scratching the surface. As we tugged at one strand ten more would appear, and it became apparent to us that we had to stop somewhere to give you an image that would be both visually accurate and not overwhelming. This is that image.

While Chopp may be the architect, it appears to us that the entire complex revolves around the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI). LIHI has ties with nearly every other player on the map, including financial support from some surprising players such as Vulcan and the Gates Foundation (see citation 17).

While this appears to have been a road to hell paved with good intentions situation, we need to close by stipulating that just because an organization is included on this map does not automatically mean that it is doing wrong. This is an illustration that connections exist in a situation where desperate people can be exploited for political and economic gain. The mechanisms to do that are well established.

The nonprofit leader entrusted to clear the dangerous homeless encampment at Broadview-Thomson K-8 admits that he took meth with a homeless woman he was supposed to help.

Mike Mathias of the homeless advocacy nonprofit Anything Helps was selected by Seattle Public Schools to work with the approximately 70 homeless people living at the controversial Bitter Lake encampment. For over a year, the park attached to the school attracted sex workers, addicts, and at one point, even a sex offender. It posed a danger to the neighboring students, staff, parents, and parkgoers.

But in July of this year, roughly a week after Mathias officially took over the efforts at the encampment, he admits to the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH that he accepted a shot of meth from a member of the camp.

No one should be forced to live in parks or on sidewalks. To solve this problem, it’s important for us to try and understand why people might stay in a park rather than accept an offer of shelter. Choosing to live in most shelters often means abandoning partners, pets, privacy and possessions. It can also mean facing violence, theft and exposure to illness. The reality is our current shelter system is woefully unprepared to address these concerns.

Our country’s homelessness crisis is rooted decades of failed housing policy, a grossly insufficient health care system, rising inequality, and decreasing social mobility, all which sit on a foundation of systemic racism.

Jefferson County Commissioner Kate Dean was one of the most vocal supporters of this absurd project. She was also on the Board of Directors of Homeward Bound, a mostly inactive non-profit the city resurrected and funded to take over the Cherry Street project. Both local print newspapers supported the project. Most elected officials here represent non-profits - not residents. Many serve on non-profit boards. They use taxpayer funds to buy commercial property, then gift it to non-profits.