[Stoat]

Just when you thought that things couldn't get worse in Seattle /King County, now every bum on the planet will be making a beeline here....not to mention a NEW bottomless pit for bureaucrats to throw MY money into....

I'm so terribly embarrassed to be a Seattleite "sigh"

[Libertarianize the GOP]

I should sell all of my assets and invest them, then move to Seattle and get a free house, with a fair return from the market over the next twenty years and my expenses paid by King County I could retire rich.

[DoughtyOne]

I've got to visit Seattle some time. The view of their "pie in the sky" would be worth the trip.

Hey Seattle, what's going to happen when word gets out that you're putting a "FREE" roof over people's beds? Greyhound is going to love you guys.

FREE is a very loose term here. Nothing is free and that $1 billion will become $20 and never even slow down...

[snarks_when_bored]

Right. The 'planners' in Seattle had also better draw up plans to keep out the tsunami of in-coming homeless people. How do you suppose they're going to do that? A fence around Seattle? Special enforcement personnel with rights to taser on sight?

[backhoe]

It always involves spending lots of everybody else's money, doesn't it? And creating some sort of "Authority" ( read- unemployment insurance for political pals ) to manage it.

BTW, I lived on Vashon in the early eighties... and my tagline is from true life, and truer words were never spoken...

[bayareablues]

Well, housing is one thing, but aren't they going to need a little pocket-money for living expenses? Until Seattle ponies up at least $300 cash/month in addition to roofs, we'll never clean the streets up in San Francisco.

[skip_intro]

Let's say that a total of 6000 units will be built, since some of the estimated 8000 "homeless" are in families.

Six thousand into one billion comes to roughly $166,000 per unit.

Not a bad present to people who contribute absolutely nothing to society at large. Of course, this gift will attract even more "homeless", so I guess the citizens of Washington will be asked to contribute even more.

As a resident of Califoria, I love this proposal. Maybe even San Francisco could be made tolerable again.

[shezza]

OPM Utopia *bump*

[theDentist]

Perhaps you should consider moving elsewhere (someplace less "progressive").

[InterceptPoint]

I will quote Milton Friedman (approximately) concerning the law of supply and demand. He said that as the cost falls the demand rises and when the cost gets to ZERO then the demand becomes INFINITE.

So I say to Seattle: "Build it and they will come, and come, and come, and come, ....

[Leatherneck_MT]

I'm so terribly embarrassed to be a Seattleite "sigh"

You Tax payers need to move out and find another place to live. When the idiots in the Government see their Tax base shrinking, they will naturally up the ante and make more taxes thus driving more people out. Soon the only people living there will be the homeless and the dimwits in the government. When the homeless don't get their handouts, they will hang the dimwits and leave seattle. Then ya'll can move back and start over :)

[jec41]

King county must have a population shortage to pass this. Look for a population explosion

[speekinout]

I LOVE this plan. I don't live in Seattle, and our state can solve our homeless problem by just buying them all a bus ticket to Seattle. :-)

[LRS]

Unless you guys in Washington elect Vlad Dracul as governor, any plan that draws more of the homeless to your state is going to result in bankruptcy...

[Diddle E. Squat]

This is a GREAT plan, I hope they speed it up and expand it!

Godspeed to these idiots creating a homeless magnet, it will draw away lots of the bums we have here in Dallas. Better there than here...

[DumpsterDiver]

But the pricetag to meet the vision of "a roof over every bed in King County" could be from $680 million to $1 billion.

A mere pittance!

If we set our sights high, that everybody in King County would have a house, it sets for us a standard we'll be always chasing, said Jeff Natter, newly named program director of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County.

It sounds like good ol' Jeff Natter wants to create a life long job for himself.

"It´s a visionary document that aims very high."

Maybe if he aims high enough he will quietly float out to sea.

[jec41]

King county must have a population shortage to pass this. Look for a population expolion

[Savage Beast]

"It is estimated that more than 8,000 people are homeless in King County each night."

I wonder if it has occurred to them that by the end of 2014 there could be 8,000 more--or 800,000 more--or...??? The word does tend to get around.

[Savage Beast]

These Visionaries remind me of the equally visionary Isadora Duncan and her familiar-to-all request to George Bernard Shaw that he father her child because she wanted a child with her body and his brain--to which Shaw, declining the invitation, replied, "What if it had my body and your brains?"

[longtermmemmory]

(s)In realizing they will never reach thei goal, the Kign County gove declares it is illegal to have a house with an underutilized bedroom count. Thus forced housing of homeless in private homes will commence. Unless you are in the military, then the third amendment prevents military personel from being housed.(/s)

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

What makes them think that more bums will show up for the handouts?

Clueless in Seattle...