Local stories are causing consternation among numerous citizens and Citizen Journalists. It seems our State and Local politicians are doing what they always do, enacting policies that represent “Compassion” to them, but have destructive effects on the citizens they purport to “represent.” Their cronies in the Homeless-Industrial Complex are making money hand over fist, mostly provided by Government, State, County, and City (AKA Taxpayers). Nobody has ever asked us, the taxpayers, what we would like to see them do for the increasing numbers of street vagrants, drug addicts, thieves, and fences of stolen merchandise. The local legacy media sometimes interviews parents of school kids about the camps sprouting up around the schools and parks, and they complain about crime and trash in their neighborhoods. Funny, though, they still seem to vote for the far-Left candidates who are enacting these policies.
So, a couple of local stories shed some light on the issue. KOMO had a story entitled “DESC opens 95-unit facility, expands supportive housing for Seattle’s chronically homeless.” Here are some excerpts from that story.
SEATTLE — New housing options are coming for homeless people in Seattle as the Downtown Emergency Services Center (DESC) opens its newest permanent supportive housing facility in the Woodland neighborhood.
Clover Place at 4905 Aurora Avenue N is DESC’s 19th permanent supportive housing site. It will provide critical support for some of the most vulnerable people, though neighbors point to serious safety concerns tied to other DESC properties.
It will provide 95 studio units with on-site services for people who have been chronically homeless and are dealing with issues such as mental illness, drug addiction, or other complex health needs. The conditions and circumstances they faced have robbed them of being a meaningful part of the community, said DESC executive director Daniel Malone.
“They can start to get a little bit of that back when they move into a stable place, and people care about them,” Malone said.
The article describes the “wraparound services” provided for clients, including substance-abuse treatment. Then, there’s this:
While the nonprofit has won several awards and been the subject of several research studies, its housing facilities have also caused concern in neighborhoods where they are located.
Tenants can be some of the most vulnerable members of the community, and DESC does not exclude individuals with criminal backgrounds from its housing programs.
A convicted murderer was arrested in 2024 for a deadly stabbing at a DESC housing facility in Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood, and a tenant was killed the year before by another man at Canaday House in South Lake Union.
Neighbors along Aurora Avenue have experienced aggressive confrontations and trespassing from tenants and their visitors at Clement Place, another DESC facility.
To be honest about the people chosen to live in these places, they are not required to accept any treatment at all, and a large proportion do not accept any treatment. They are allowed to go on using drugs, and interacting with those still living in the camps that the City has allowed to proliferate nearly everywhere.
Here is what a rare not-so-far-Left City Councilwoman from a nearby neighborhood had to say.
In Burien, City Councilmember Linda Akey has described DESC’s Bloomside as a “federally-funded crack house,” due to heavy drug use and drug dealing. There has also been a high volume of police and fire calls at the housing facility.
KOMO News reached out to Akey, who responded in an email.
“The DESC model, allowing drug dealers and addicts to cohabit and allowing drug use in the building, does not provide a safe environment in and around the building for either the residents or the community. This has not changed,” Akey said.
Further on, the article notes that the DESC employs the system known (falsely) as “Harm Reduction” at these facilities. That means allowing residents to continue to use and sell hard drugs, even providing them with their paraphernalia! That sounds more like “Harm Encouragement” to me.
Next, the State Legislature will possibly make the DESC’s job more difficult. I have noted earlier that they are considering legislation that will FORBID local governments from disallowing homeless camps on public property. That means that the “homeless” (read drug addicted vagrant criminals) to camp on ANY “public-owned” property with no fear of “sweeps” that mostly cause them to just pick up and move down the street. Here’s the link to the KOMO article. Please also note the KOMO poll in the article, it is enlightening.
The proposed legislation would prevent local governments from adopting or enforcing laws that criminalize or prohibit individuals from engaging in “life-sustaining activities” on public property unless alternative shelter is available at that time
“life-sustaining activities” are defined as:
- Moving
- Resting
- Sitting
- Standing
- Lying down
- Sleeping
- Protecting oneself and personal property from the elements
- Eating
- Drinking
- Other basic activities necessary for survival
“What it proposes to do is remove punishment from the toolkit when shelter is not available and provides clarity and consistency for everyone involved,” said Jazmyn Clark, with the ACLU of Washington, during a public hearing last month.
None of those state legislators or the ACLU have to live in the neighborhoods that will now be host to homeless camps and their attendant crime, drug use, child molestation, and stolen-items markets. And, at least in Seattle, NO ONE who is homeless is required to “accept” any shelter or other social services at all, because they prefer to live on the streets where there are no rules except for the law of the jungle.
We all know that this kind of “suicidal empathy” legislation is bound to cause more societal breakdown than is already taking place. Yes, they know the consequences of this, but they do not seem to care, since they personally will not be affected in their ritzy gated communities. Legislators, in fact, have obvious conflicts of interest-many of them own businesses that live off the government handouts that they legislate. The self-dealing is rampant, and the Democrats in the State House are making laws that protect them and their programs from public scrutiny. Local citizen journalists are now being denied Press passes by the State House Democrats, so they will not hear the hard questions that the journalists ask every day.
The State of Washington doesn’t want the Public interfering with their plans to break down Civilization. Welcome to Washington, the country’s largest open-air prison, where the public has no influence with or over their “elected” “representatives.” If you thought things here were already bad, just you all wait.
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