Growing Seattle homeless encampments bring new problems, mounting frustration

Yeah I actually do agree with the soft thing, something needs to be done and it probably won’t be easy and peaceful. Sad reality is that a lot of homeless people have had an opportunity to get help and now it’s up to whoever to say; do we make the help mandatory? Do we offer no help if they decline? Do we just kick them out of the city with nothing? Or what? That’s the part I struggle with. I often hear people say we just need to bulldozer through the camps and get them out, obviously that’s a little extreme. But then saying going in there peacefully and offering mental health help is also a little extreme because that will take a lot of time, patience, man power, and faith that people will respond to treatment. I lean on the side of hope and faith, but I also am not on the front lines and looking at the data and know these people’s situation.

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