Report: Seattle has nation's largest homeless population outside of New York, Los Angeles 

https://komonews.com/news/local/report-seattle-has-nations-largest-homeless-population-outside-of-new-york-los-angeles

Homelessness has exploded along with a soaring economy in several West Coast cities in recent years and has become a hot local political issue. From 2015 through last year, voters on the West Coast approved more than $8 billion in spending — most of it in tax increases — to address homelessness.

In Seattle, which has the nation's largest homeless population outside New York or Los Angeles, the count this year rose to more than 12,000 — more than half of them unsheltered. The number was less than 9,000 just four years ago, and the city has been wrestling with what to do about the problem.

The City Council in May passed a $48 million tax on businesses to raise money for affordable housing. But under pressure from Amazon, Starbucks and other companies, it repealed it the next month.

Title  should be "Seattle is committing suicide".  The prosperity afforded by companies like Microsoft and Boeing has  allowed the liberals to run amok.

You'll spend a minimum of 20-30k on permits to build a house before the first shovel full of dirt is turned.  The restrict where building can occur.  This makes housing unaffordable for most.

They tax the hell out of the productive and reward the lazy and non-productive sending an invite to the country-world.  "Wanna live off the government?   No better place for it than Seattle".

Regulate the hell out of business.

Yeah, the fall is not too far off and it will be dramatic. 

The libs will move south and conservatives will take over. And the libs will blame the cons. "Never looked like this when we were in charge!!!"

It will slowly come back,  but likely never to the heights it reached this time. 

Thanks Tim!

Here's another city effected. 

Protesters swarmed a Columbia Sportswear store after its CEO said the company may close its office due to safety concerns

https://www.businessinsider.com/protests-columbia-sportswear-portland-homelessness-2017-12

• On Saturday, protests erupted outside the Columbia Sportswear store in Portland, Oregon, forcing it to close.
• The protesters were responding to an open letter that CEO Tim Boyle had written about safety concerns around the company's office.
• Some saw it as an attack on the neighborhood's homeless population.

Gee -- what danger could a large homeless population pose to any city? Why, having an unmanageably large homeless population is the bestest thing that could ever happen to any city anywhere, and Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle are proving it day after day! I believe Los Angeles also has a similar problem.

 https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-homeless-people-death-unsheltered-substance-abuse-20190422-story.html 

Kinda makes you want to visit, but of course, first you must put a flower in your hair -- 'cause, you know, summertime will be a love-in there -- not.

May the Lord have mercy on the homeless ones and those who are trying to help them!

`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````Metmike, the YouTube video you recommended is quite an eye opener. It's very depressing until it is completely redeemed by the closing discussion of what Rhode Island is doing to combat the same problem. It's sad to think that Seattle may never adopt such a program; I hope they do. 

San Fransisco willspend 75 million this year cleaning human feces from their streets.