The city has endeavored for decades to address the homelessness crisis, but the problem only gets worse. What’s wrong here?
“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
— Mayor Ed Murray, quoting Dorothy Day, quoting Dostoevsky
In a culmination of three decades of perpetual crisis, Seattle late last year joined Portland in proclaiming that homelessness had reached a state of emergency. In January, Mayor Ed Murray followed with a major address in which he repeatedly referred to the city’s complex human service network as “broken.” ...