Unhoused

A man, and his dog.

Seattle has a fairly substantial population of homeless persons, and that number seems to have grown recently despite the eviction moratorium that was put in place during the pandemic. To be sure, the moratorium has ended, but the homeless population was already rising.

What's to be done about reveals a classic case of people wanting solutions, but not wanting to pay for them themselves. Many people in the area have done fairly well for themselves in terms of increasing the equity in their homes, and there really isn't much of anything to be done about homelessness that doesn't reduce the values of people's homes, given that, when it's all said and done, what we're dealing with is a matter of supply and demand.