On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, volunteers put the finishing touches on small houses with the kind of basic amenities you don't see in Seattle homeless camps.
"The difference is you have electricity and a lock on the door," said Steve Tucker, a member of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, which is hosting what organizers are calling Seattle's first tiny house village.
— Kiro TV
Seattle joins several other pioneering cities and states across the U.S. that have chosen to provide housing for the chronically homeless. These programs have shown that the housing actually saves governments money and eventually reduces the overall rate of transient recidivism. Here's a sampling of our coverage:
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I'm just glad these things aren't in my neighborhood.
here's the zoning requirements for the county in which the structure i linked is located.
https://www.co.pierce.wa.us/index.aspx?NID=971
http://www.codepublishing.com/WA/PierceCounty/#!/PierceCounty18A/PierceCounty18A15.html#18A.15
while i'm sure they don't want carerra building slums in their neighborhood (nobody does), i think it's a pretty big stretch to say the government is trying to oppress carrera or jla or whoever still thinks there's a conspiracy to strip their liberties. i would have looked up the zoning regulations in carrera's neighborhood, but apparently he thinks it would be dangerous for that information to be made public.
oppression doesn't always require a will to oppress.
Didn’t say it was “oppressive”, it’s just dumb, controlling “things” doesn’t help “people”…as Andrés Duany has said we live in a horizontal society controlled by civil engineers who only see the world in plan view…a world of dead worm cul-de-sacs…the word “zoning” is archaic…offices go in the north zone, housing goes in the south zone….”suffocating” may be a better word, the root cause of the accelerated climate change.
BTW – That Olson Treetop would have never happened where I am (Michigan/Ohio/Indiana)…that’s exactly what I was trying to do, plant a seed that could grow.
I'm just glad these things aren't in my neighborhood.
Trump would never allow that.
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