Seattle homeless population: nearly half are outsiders

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A stunning 86.6% of the homeless population was born outside of Seattle or King County. Nearly 67% of the homeless neither currently have, nor ever ever had, family living in Seattle or King County. Even more telling, 80.2% of them didn’t even attend high school in the area.

  Jason, you’re from New York.

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re also human, or are we dehumanizing “outsiders”?

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, there is merit in studying why homeless people are willing/forced to travel to certain cities. If you can figure out where they came from, you can more accurately allocate resources to where they need to go. Maybe you discover that a lot of them are coming from one specific neighboring town.

    And if they were forced to move, it’s worth looking into the reasons why. Maybe their home town had one of those awful “just bus all the homeless to the nearest city and leave them there” programs. Maybe a neighboring city’s police department is particularly harsh, which pushes homeless people to move?

    If they intentionally came from other large cities, what is making this city so attractive for homeless people in comparison? Does this city have better social programs set up to support homeless people? Is the city more lax in how they police homelessness?

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• Panamalt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What a stupid fucking article

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