At the direction of Mayor Jenny Durkan, the city’s Human Services Department is studying the possibility of mandatory biometric screening of homeless shelter and service clients, using fingerprints or other biometric markers to track the city’s homeless population as they move through the homelessness system. — C is for Crank
Independent journalist Erica Barnett reports on an ongoing study being undertaken by municipal officials in Seattle, where efforts to resolve the city's ongoing homelessness crisis could include using biometric tracking systems to log how individuals make use of public services.
desperation leads to odd (wrong?) ideas sometimes.
this WEEDS podcast got into some of the hurdles around homelessness in USA that is eye opening. The recent Archinect podcast with madworkshop gets into the design side. Both are worth listening to. Architects should be all over this topic, but we are not...
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desperation leads to odd (wrong?) ideas sometimes.
this WEEDS podcast got into some of the hurdles around homelessness in USA that is eye opening. The recent Archinect podcast with madworkshop gets into the design side. Both are worth listening to. Architects should be all over this topic, but we are not...
Or the city could use that money to, gasp, house the homeless, as opposed to compounding the Orwellian nightmare and making the crimilization of homelessness even worse.
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