City officials tell volunteers to stop helping Seattle's homeless

[Valin]

The Post Millennial

Andrea Suarez of the grassroots organization We Heart Seattle was told, "Stop helping homeless people. Stop picking up garbage in our parks," because it was "disruptive."

Ari Hoffman

November 30, 2021

A team of Seattle neighbors who were tired of inaction by local politicians and government funded agencies has cleaned up over 400,000 pounds of garbage from area homeless encampments and found dozens of residents resources to stop living on the streets. They were then told by the city to stop their activities, with many speculating because they were demonstrating the city’s gross incompetence.

In October, during a Zoom meeting with Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss and other city leaders, Andrea Suarez of the grassroots organization We Heart Seattle was told, "Stop helping homeless people. Stop picking up garbage in our parks," because it was "disruptive."

 

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*The region is spending billions of dollars on various organizations, programs, tiny homes, hotels, and more and yet the amount of people living on the streets continues to grow and the problem continues to get worse.

Strauss and other city officials could solve the problem by working with groups like We Heart Seattle but would rather demonize them and prevent them from rescuing people from a life of poverty.

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* it might be interesting to find out how much of that money goes to Administrators, politically connected NGO's?

 

[SDwaters]

"Shame on them," Belair said. "I think they (city officials) are in fear of money and donations going elsewhere, to people that actually have a solution and repeating it over and over again and have results."

Bingo!  As with so many "advocates" the last thing they want is for the problem to really be solved, thereby cutting off their gravy train.