I’m still waiting for someone to explain why the taxpayers should buy housing for chronically homeless people on some of the most expensive real estate in the U.S. of A. In at least half this country one can buy a livable house for $50,000. Around here a vacant lot costs $100,000.
What to do with “homeless” funds? Buy one way tickets and/or truck rentals to wherever the people want to go as long as it is east of Montana plus $1,000 moving expenses and have them sign a civil agreement not to ever return unless they pay us back twice the cost.
The chronic homeless don’t want to live in Mississippi? Breaks my heart.
Neither do I. I pay a premium to live in the best place in the world. Why should they live here free?
“Welfare” has become a growth industry in this area every since the Seattle-King County Board of Health decided that winos were “disabled.”
We earned a world-wide reputation as “the place where they pay you to get drunk.”
Snohomish County is going to eliminate homelessness? “Build it and they will come.” Thirty years ago The Miami Herald printed an editorial recommending that their winos go to Seattle where they were wanted. I’m tempted to write to every newspaper east of the Mississippi recommending that they send their homeless people to Everett. I can’t think of a better way to make our do-gooders come to their senses.
Bill Wald
Everett
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