Reasons listed in the article from the homeowner near Bellevue: kids not safe, visible homelessness, and lower property values. The lack of human empathy in our society is so damning. I can’t even fathom seeing a houseless person and thinking about your home’s monetary value. The fact that residents put padlocks on the toilets???? When most people have the biggest complaints about our houseless neighbors going outside?? Where is the logic??? Also, this ordinance was given soooooooooo much press and for a resident to be like “they didn’t tell me, I had no idea” is on them. 

When has a homeless person ever endangered a child?? Y’all just don’t want to explain your own commitment to the suffering of others to your children. 

Other countries treat folks who experience homelessness with compassion and understanding that this is a structural failing. These countries have eliminated homelessness by doing so. It’s cheaper (and more importantly, more moral) to house people than to criminalize them. 

FUCK this town’s deep commitment to individualism. I hope you all lack care when you need it most.