Every Night, a New Dubious Record
I came back from the bars last night -- it was 11:45, there were still four women in our shelter dispatch center; two looked like candidates for a nursing home. They could barely walk. Sick enough to require attention, but not sick enough for our messed up health care system.
These two struggled to simply get out the door and to the bus stop. The survival plan for the night was to ride the Metro 174 bus all night. Apparently you can get a transfer that is good all night.
219 served. 18 women turned away into the night with just a blanket. 24 men with no place to go. This is nuts.
God help us. Rick
These two struggled to simply get out the door and to the bus stop. The survival plan for the night was to ride the Metro 174 bus all night. Apparently you can get a transfer that is good all night.
219 served. 18 women turned away into the night with just a blanket. 24 men with no place to go. This is nuts.
God help us. Rick
posted by Pastor Rick | 11:04 AM
3 Comments:
Buses are are not an appropriate place for people to spend the night. Seattle is committed to ending homelessness, and has formed a partnership of city and county, human services providers, private charity, and business leaders to take an outcomes-based approach to ending the problem instead of just managing it with shelter and emergency services. Housing with services, not shelter, is the answer to ending homelessness.
It's a ten year plan, not a two year plan. We know we have a ways to go. The 1811 Eastlake project has already saved $2.5 million in emergency services costs by providing housing with services to chronically homeless street alcoholics. Plymouth Housing, $3.5 million commitment, blah, blah, blah. This proves the Ten Year Plan is on track and working. The City of Seattle already spends more than $40 million annually on homelessness and housing. Seattle is a regional and national leader on this issue.
If you would like to know more about how Seattle is ending homelessness, please call Bill Block at the Committee to End Homelessness, and he'll utter more or less the same words as the rest of us while we manipulate our massive, um, amounts of data, and continue to throw away people's survival gear to drive the bums out of town. Or, you could just fuck off directly. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm glad to see this crisis has not harmed your hard-hitting steady hand on the tiller.
Your perspicuity is as acute as ever; however, your potty mouth requires a good scrubbing.
r
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm glad to see this crisis has not harmed your hard-hitting steady hand on the tiller.
Your perspicuity is as acute as ever; however, your potty mouth requires a good scrubbing.
r
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