That’s what I like, out of the box thinking…
Anything helps…
“In its three-plus years of operation, the Mission Street Navigation Center took in 2,204 people, and 68 percent of them exited homelessness, according to city figures. More than half of those people who left the streets — 1,177 — did so through the Homeward Bound program, which gives bus tickets to people to return home to receptive family or friends.”
So we could eliminate 1/3rd of homelessness by giving peoole a bus ticket to family? That seems like a really cheap solution. Why isn’t it done on a larger scale?
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Los Gatos gives them bus tickets to Santa Cruz, I heard.
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If housing price is flat from 2018 to 2028, what would you do now?
Cash-out-refinance while the values are high and you still find a lender with a positive sentiment.
I think there are a number of scenarios other than “flat for 10 years”.
Cash out refi is a good idea. But there will be a lack of investment opportunities in a flat market.
If we have a flat market for 10 years, we have to make sure that we have a healthy rental income so it’s worth holding. At least it should be better than 10 year bond.
What’s your idea of the likely price scenario?
Very interesting article
“ At the same time, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal , the Seattle metro area spends more than $1 billion fighting homelessness every year. That’s nearly $100,000 for every homeless man, woman, and child in King County”
Yup. People in Seattle are getting fed up with the ineffectiveness. It’s another debacle like the bicycle lanes.
A lot of city council members are up for re-election next year. There’s a movement to vote against all of them. The council thinks they can do whatever they want even if polls show most residents disapprove. The head tax is a perfect example. City council finally caved to the will of the people.
There’s a reason I bought outside Seattle. Well, much larger lot size and newer homes helped with the decision too. There’s no way I was going to buy inside the city limits though.
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Interesting that the weather (fair amount of rain) is not keeping the problem from really blowing up, unlike here where the weather is fairly mild all year round to make it ultra doable.
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Ask the police officers. They can’t do anything about homeless people. Yes, “people”. Their motive to put anybody in jail in order to be helped by evaluating their emotional condition was thrown in the garbage when Reagan dumped them on the streets. Google it.
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Reagan is out of the picture. Blame nimbyies enviro nazies the BOS the EPA and any other government organization that dedicates itself to stopping housing development.
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Nah!
Actions and voting have consequences.
Regan destroyed the future healthcare of many veterans returning from future “fantasy” wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the rhetoric during the campaign, they are not being helped, they can’t be housed, they are free to go, nobody to grab them, put them in jail while specialists revise their cases.
They are on their own walking on our streets like ghosts, or living like animals. We may laugh, berate, criticize them and call them “homeless” as if that is something out of a science fiction movie, or a word non existent in the richest country in the world.
Oh well, so much we can’t say when we never served in the army. Or commanding them when we were draft dodging cowards.
10-20 of them are committing suicide every day they say.
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All 30 people were offered a spot in a shelter. 29 refused. You literally can’t help some people.
Yeah, I feel the kid gloves have to just come off. These people think they can just do what they want and that really shouldn’t be the case.
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People can do whatever they like because the checks and balances were destroyed by Reagan. He threw the homeless/sick people out of the hospitals! Now, they don’t care, and won’t do anything about it.
Read the God damn history of his failures.
This is Seattle, not California. Try to keep up. Even in CA he didn’t throw anyone out of anywhere. There was great concern at the time that people were being involuntarily committed and abused in those institutions.
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Oh…sorry, I didn’t know there weren’t any homeless people in California.
Nice spinning, but ain’t going to work.
With President Reagan and the Republicans taking over, the Mental Health Systems Act was discarded before the ink had dried and the CMHC funds were simply block granted to the states. The CMHC program had not only died but been buried as well. An autopsy could have listed the cause of death as naiveté complicated by grandiosity.
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