I could get rid of the “homelessness” problem in under two years and do it cheaply. Buy the Seattle PD 50 drug sniffing dogs and hire 100 extra beat cops. Send them out with the dogs in teams through every tent encampment and every corner of the city where the bums hang out and confiscate every bit of heroine, meth, coke and open containers of alcohol they can find. Don’t even bother arresting them, just relentlessly take away their junk. In a short while they’ll all leave. The “homeless” have flocked to Seattle because they don’t like following rules and no one here wants to make them follow any.
The massive national problem no one talks about is how the liberals in the ‘70s and ‘80s worked very hard to get the country’s mental institutions shut down for “humanitarian” reasons. What we see on our streets everywhere now is a direct result of that.