Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "KOMO News"
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We had the same in Boise, much smaller population, we ensured we have enough homeless shelters, and they were forced to break their camp. But we still have homeless all over the town. Traveling to OKC, Denver, Seattle, Portland Or, etc. it's a national problem of not having universal healthcare. And they literally go to big cities because they often do have more chance for mental assistance than in poorer less populated cities and states... those states just put them into for profit private prisons.
We need national universal healthcare and a drug intervention system nationally similar to what Portugal implemented and saw addiction rates dramatically decline. 2017 we saw nationally over 70,000 deaths for drug overdose. Entire Vietnam war was 58,209 US deaths.
And we need to implement a housing project in developing houses and apartments nationwide.
1965-1980 per 1,000 household construction peaks were 35 to 25... move through the 1980-2017 it's gone from 14 to ridiculous 9 constructions per 1,000 households. WE have larger population, yet construction is cut by 75%. That's a collapsing economy.
Fixes:
1) Universal healthcare
2) Drug reform with intervention programs.
3) National housing project for developing of houses and apartments to reach at least 40 houses per 1,000 households.
ALL NATIONAL. Otherwise you will swamp the boat in any given state or city. It's partly why the do nothing rural states population remain relatively low as people flea from those impoverish shit holes to denser populated areas. There's no where to hide anymore from our collapsing economy.
Not doing these national steps, expect all cities, even those smaller one's in rural states to get even uglier. And more people who never thought they would end up among the homeless not necessarily drug addicted.
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