Posted on 08/01/2022 9:00:02 PM PDT by Morgana
Seattle business owners are installing one-ton concrete blocks on the city's streets in a bid to prevent homeless people from camping out on the sidewalks.
The Democrat-led city struggles with a homeless population of nearly 13,300 - exacerbated by the pandemic - and they frequently set up tent camps along the streets.
But the concrete slabs are the way that locals are attempting to curb homeless camps and RVs being planted outside shops - after the city paused parking enforcement during the pandemic.
The blocks are so heavy that they can't be moved without specialized equipment - making them burdensome for the city to remove as they continue to pop up in Georgetown, Ballard and Sodo.
Despite it being illegal to place ecology blocks, sidewalks or parking spaces, anonymous residents continue to plant them in the city.
Business owner JW Harvey told The Seattle Times: 'Individual businesses and residents are putting ecology blocks out as taking matters in their own hands because if they call the city and say there are RVs out in front of their business or out in front of their home, they can’t do anything about it.'
He said he has spent more time speaking to and helping homeless people than he has running his business - but he is now tired of trying to manage the 'ripple effects' of Seattle's overwhelming homeless population.
In 2020, Seattle and King County ranked as the third area in the nation with the most homeless people, recording roughly 11,700 people living on the streets.
Harvey added that business owners feel like they've got no choice but to put the concrete slabs because of the growing number of RVs and tents in the area.
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I wonder how they will vote in November?
Better to put them in front of city hall. It’s a rat poli problem not a dirtbag issues. But who could really tell the difference.
in some places where the homeless camp out, there is a wall of feces there -
They needed to build a wall between WA and California starting in the 1970s.
They'll vote stupid as usual, having learned nothing.
Why have a sidewalk at all?
Concrete planters with something spikey and thorny growing in it is what I would do.
Majority probably need to blame themselves as well. But like good Democrat supporting sheep, they find it easier to blame someone else, that they themselves supported.
And my once beautiful birth city continues to elect dumbass progressives who have completely devastated the city with out of control crime, homeless vagrants, drug dealing and rampant shoplifting. You get who you vote for.
“Let them touch those things for once!”
Those blocks should be acceptable to the greenies since they are good for "the ecology."
I'm sure it's also illegal for the homeless to camp on the sidewalks and in the parks and leave feces, urine and needles all over. Which laws will the city enforce? Anti-bum laws? Or anti-ecology block laws?
They’re chasing their tails
Bandaids on severed arteries
Treating the never ending symptoms but not the actual causes
Far left, as always.
I do not expect a shift right in Seattle/King Co. It would be against their genetics (i live near there)
It does not matter, the fix is already in.
And the probable Fascist Inslee shows his true colors here
The shopkeepers will start getting slapped with fines within 45 says. They really have no right to do this. Do the homeless have a right to obstruct the right of way? Of course not. You gonna fine them?
I believe storeowners tried this in San Fran about a year ago and were immediately threatened with fines and injunctions.
There is a nice big grassy park next to the county courthouse in Seattle. The county did a great job kicking out all the dangerous homeless people that lived there. It is now a nice green, grassy park again.
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Surrounded by a chain link fence and the only people allowed in are the guys that mow the grass.
These concrete blocks are serving the same purpose.
Well, one way to help is light fires at night, you know, trash and things that are left on the ground….enough of their “possessions” burn then they will find other places…there is a saying “smoke them out”
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