I work for City of Bellevue, we take homeless encampment reports very seriously. Mostly because we don't want them messing up surface water quality and our fish bearing streams.
@@Mav0585 I'm not sure about Kirkland, but I can imagine that they are in a similar vein due to the wealth of their customers just as we have wealthy customers. We have the staff and resources to take care of these things from people's tax dollars and utility bills. Stormwater and Water Quality (paid through utility bill) work with police and the homeless coordination group (paid through taxes), so you get a double dip of funds to put towards the issue. Plus, we actually care. There are only three admins that answer the phones for the entire City of Bellevue (I am one of them), so, I CARE that your issue it taken care of because if its not, the chances are 1 in 3 that I will take your more angry call next week lol
@@Aetriex Thank you for your services. I love Bellevue and when my family visits in a few weeks we will be spending all of our time there instead of Seattle. A question for you though. Who do you think is mostly responsible for the Seattle encampments? As someone who isn't in public service i see the Mayor blames the city council, the city council blames the police and the police say they have no ground to stand on. What department or resource is suppose to take care of this?
Seattle residents should demand a refund for every tax dollar that was allocated to public parks for the last 12 months. Prediction: Seattle residents won't do this. In fact, they will re-elect everyone on the city council and the mayor.
I've worked in Down Town Seattle for years as a vendor. Not one time have I seen a legit emergency response for a normal citizen. Of the crazy number of times I've seen emergency services respond, it's been for overdoses, unresponsive drunks in commercial entryways etc. All homeless people, 100%. Who do you think pays for that?
Many years ago I was pumping gas at a station just off I-90 on Rainier Ave. While I was pumping gas I watched a police vehicle with "Mercer Island" markings drive into the gas station parking lot. They let a man out of the back of the vehicle. Then handed him something that look like cash. The police officer said,"Don't come back to Mercer Island".
Yes, that’s what would also happen in California. The nicer areas would take them downtown and concentrate them on Skid Row. Now they are just everywhere. I now see why people protest public transportation. That’s how they seep in. Out here, they just get on the trains, nobody stops them for fare, and come to the nicer areas and lay about doing drugs.
There was a story about a year or 2 ago that exposed big blue cities like NYC, Boston, etc paying homeless like $1,000 and giving them one way tickets to CA, OR, WA. to get their official homeless numbers down. other homeless migrate to the west coast and hawaii because the warm weather makes living outside a little easier. Sometimes they come back. Once the story came out they started putting homeless in nice hotels in nice neighborhoods and the stories that came out about the resulting shenanigans are many. Some say the paying homeless to leave still happens, but many dont want to go because they already have a familiar area and ways to get things that may not continue if they had to start over in a strange place across the continent.
That's been going on for years. I was born in Seattle and grew up in Redmond. I worked in Seattle and they loaded them on buses and send them to South Seattle.
This was the most informative podcast of this series in a long time, for me anyway. I moved out of Seattle last year because I couldn't stand it. So, it really is a matter of the will of the municipality to serve it's own citizens. Says a lot (not good) for Seattle.
Because cops in Bellevue always side with aggressive employees who assault customers for not wearing masks such as when that gas station cashier assaulted that female
@@muskepticsometimes9133 She didn't pull the gun until AFTER he physically shoved her out the doors. Go watch the surveillance footage provided by the news channel instead of going by the headline alone. Her only mistake was pulling it AFTER he had gone back inside instead of _during_ the scuffle. Despite that, the judge released her on her own recognizance (no need to post bail) and her only punishment was to stay away from the convenience store (which is easy since she doesn't even live in King County). Bellevue PD always try to make nonsensical arrests, but it never works out for them in the long-run.
They ruined Bellevue and made it unaffordable over the past 40-50 years. Bad zoning laws which favored large corporations. Bellevue was initially designed as gracious country living, suburban housing for Seattle. My dad lived in Bellevue from 1961 until he died in 2014. Taxes alone are outrageous. Bellevue is a wealthy enclave, and not at all middle class anymore.
I almost got in a 5 car pileup on highway 18 last year. This is near the summit where there is nothing. Well it was because 2 tweakers darted across like dear. As I slowly drove by i saw a fresh junkie camp up there.(in the boonies mind you). Fear not sean...its coming
In the end its about the composition of the voters. In Portland most people don't want to enforce laws and they will willfully vote every bond measure for homeless causes
Except for the fact that the police and politicians in Bellevue share no ideological difference with those in Seattle and Portland. Bellevue PD arrested a woman because she defended herself against an aggressive male employee who assaulted her for not wearing a mask inside of a convenience store. Fortunately, the judge released her on her own recognizance instead of setting a bail amount of 75,000 dollars like the D.A. asked him to do
Some cities enforce existing laws. Others submit to the demands of extremists and their lawyers. In Los Angeles, the difference between "City of Los Angeles" regions versus other incorporated cities within the region is night and day. The tents literally will end where the LA City limit ends and a separately incorporated city begins.
@@poodlescone9700 sadly, in LA County, the same activist lawyers who forced LA City to stop enforcing laws, are now working on a strategy to sue the other cities into submission, from what I understand they are prioritizing it based on which ones have the highest amount of homeless on average.
Many of the homeless in my opinion, want the services and opportunities that society provides access to, without the societal contract of behavior. Go live by yourself in the middle of nowhere otherwise.
That's cuz the educational system no longer teaches kid what a resident's social responsibility is. They only teach propagandas like all humans are good in nature, we should love each other, you have your freedom, we respect each other even both are a*holes, etc. But primary schools no longer teach finance 101, society 101, which are the essential knowledge of producing responsible residents.
@@mingchi1855 I have a different view. You can't rely on schools to teach your children social responsibility. Parents are the problem. I'm over 70 and I involved myself with my kids.
@@mingchi1855 thats right. I never learned about unemployment, so when my temporary 6 month position ended i spent 2 summer months looking for work totally broke before a relative told me to apply for unemployment insurance benefits since i paid taxes since i was in high school. I felt like an idiot.
With all this talk of defunding police. I can honestly see major metropolitan areas like Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Baltimore, Minneapolis, and others becoming "dumping" grounds for the criminal element. Similar to how cities and states across the country have dumped their homeless populations on the West Coast. If suburban areas can really get aggressive on crime and basically push their local criminal element into those major cities. In a nutshell, it'll make those places into giant, containment areas where the dregs of society can be safely isolated from the rest of the country. Similar to how the city of Los Angeles set up Skid Row as a containment hub for that city's entire homeless population. This is why I strongly support defunding the police in those major cities. As it'll make the rest of the country safer as criminals flock to, or are pushed heavily into those cities en'masse.
Cities run by democrats have been crime infested shit holes for a long time w/ drug use & homelessness on the rise. They soon will be 10 times worse. That is why I refuse to live or even visit cities. They are cesspools of cultural rot.
Yup escape from New York LA. Portland settle. Their making city’s prison for thugs an crazy’s. Then the Democratic Party will say we need a national police force here comes the storm troops. Wake up Earthlings
There are the ones that camp in a extremely public spot obviously to draw attention. We have a gang that begs at the local shopping center. At their shift change, the person in a wheelchair gets up to let the next guy sit and he walks off.
Seattle, King County and the Feds should partner and use the GSA Warehouses in Auburn for a secured Homeless Center with Prefabricated housing cubicles, storage, RV parking and Services. That's where you send cleared camps to, the SODO RV's, etc. This would supplement the hotels and tiny home villages. Also use facility for work training - can you make Nice Prefabricated Tiny homes there? Eventually those will become the new Starter Homes for those not making $100K in King County. If Seattle is serious about helping the Homeless and People of Color, you have to offer Opportunity that become hard skills - so one can earn a living. The GSA Warehouse can offer valuable Construction training to those who want it.
How many do you think would come to a facility like that!! Obviously you didn't here what was said, hotel take over, 4 out of forty took the offered help. Get real, most do not want rules.
In San Francisco some homeless pitched a bunch of tents across the street from a residential street in the back of the Safeway until the residents there petitioned to have them removed.
And our city's voters still elect the same progressive lunatics that double down on failed policies so the problem moves to other parts of town. Notice the homeless do not cross the border into San Mateo county.
There are huge camps in BELLEVUE. They are called Low Income housing. Buildings full of convicted felons and you wouldn't even know they were there because the media covers for them. My wife used to manage them but I made her quit after weeks of federal warrants being served on multiple units. So, just because you don't see tents, doesn't mean they aren't there.
This is a stereotypical thought about people in low income housing. I’m am in Portland in a Low housing apartment.. I’m not a felon, just someone in her 20s who can’t afford an average price apartment here right now
People with the kind of money that Bellevue homeowners typically have tend to vote for politicians that promise them safety and security; something that is usually a cornerstone of their political platform.
@@megadog_ It's mostly Virtue Signaling, and misplaced White Guilt. They'll won't quit the virtue signaling until the people they are signaling to begin punching them in the face. "But I'm on *YOUR* side!", will be their famous last words.
@@Einh0ven Not at all. The problem is that at the State and Federal level, they continually vote for the idiots that enable this crap in major cities throughout the country. As long as it isn't in *their* backyard, they're ok with it.
@@megadog_ King County has a population of 2.2m people. Seattle has a population of under 800K. Many of the goods and services for the homeless in King County are located in Seattle the county seat. I'm not saying that Seattle isn't a cess-pool of liberal/socialist/commie limp wristed bleeding hearts but, it's laughable that the rest of the County/State would dump their homeless problems on Seattle then flex on them when the obvious problems ensue. I'm not saying that this is what you or Sean are doing. Just saying that there is a bigger picture here then just "Bellevue has excellent Policing". Although generally I would agree with that statement. Other cities in King County have been dumping their homeless in Seattle for decades. Don't come and poop on my lawn then call my yard a toilet.
It’s about good governance. We need a city to be proud of. Homelessness is a blight and homeless encampments are a scar on a city. It does cause inconvenience for people who are homeless, but not enforcing causes real damage to the city as well, and prevents true progress from occurring.
I lived in west Seattle. Worked in Everett at Boeing. Was a Realtor investor too in Bellevue for Jerry Simon. Seaco east downtown Bellevue. Sean I was there 1988 at age 27. Then I saw the ugly side of Seattle. My rental house by high point projects area. The crazy drug addicts who would be hanging out in Maggie's on Delridge and the delridge tap. Homeless people had a place to go if you could stay with friends. Harder to do today
One of the most successful methods are the tiny home clusters where people can have a stable private space, have an address, have a way to shower and do laundry. From there, they can get training, get a job and get back into society. But drugs and booze are not allowed in those places.
Don't give up on life and the universe I know of a great man who helped you me fix my broken hear beat relationship and everything was restored to pormal in days without delay..
If the first homeless to move in were told to move along the problem wouldn't have gotten out of hand. Now that it's overwhelming I'm afraid it's only going to get worse.
It is going to be that way. I use to be homeless in a park. Not anymore, it's easy to get there all you have to do is slip and fall without any support. I was put there by the police. I cannot say that for everyone but 1 day before the park I worked and paid to live in a hotel the police took my my foundation and the floor was right there and I was in a state where I had no family but I got out with the word of God.you are speculating. But I will say that mental illness is a part of long term homelessness another factor is drug use I was out in 40 days and fourth nights.
The homeless didn't impact Bellevue's city leaders or families either. Impact of the homeless on city leaders isn't the difference between Seattle and Bellevue.
You will never see this story .. let alone news titles such as this on our local 4/5/7 news. They don't like to cover the real stories or at least do the comparisons and try to understand what really is going on.
If you could do this 3 step system - it is too big now - Aug 2023, Maybe if you take a six block section at a time, clean that up and move on. Do not let trash move back to a clean area.
It is all about the local politicans, select your local and state leaders carefully and make them accountable. It is the only way to defend your home, your beloved city/state from falling into the hands of Evil Elitist who think we are their peasants and owns us.
there are a few homeless in Redmond and Kirkland. I'm in Portland and we have a homeless guy in my apartment's tool shed who is a packrat. I just grabbed a jerry can out of his stuff and threw it out with the recycling this morning because I don't want him having gasoline out there.
They don't want to accept housing because community housing will not allow drugs or alchohol. If someone is just down on their luck and needs job training and a bit of help, it is in society's own interest to give it to them. They don't want to be on the streets exposed to substance abusers. But that is not what addicts or drunks want. By the time they've been on the streets long enough with these habits, they are probably beyond help. And that does not begin to address those who are mentally ill.
Even though I do not believe in defunding the police I do believe we have too many police sometimes I think we live in a police state we had to have tougher laws and less police
Wall street journal, realtor.com, Forbes magazine just listed Coeur d’Alene, Idaho as the number one emerging real estate market in the country. We don’t have a homeless or crime problem here and we are a red city & state and, we probably back our police officers.
Until we stop these city governments from getting federal handouts for their homeless problem it will only get worse! These cities get bonus cash for every homeless person they have, so the more homeless they have the more money the city gets! Homeless populations are lucrative so the incentive is to make as many people as they can homeless!
4:20 It's because Bellevue forcefully relocates the homeless to other areas (passes the buck) regardless of whether that is Constitutional or not. Bellevue therefore is not handling this better than any other area. Telling someone there might be some kind of housing in other towns while forcefully kicking them out of your town is not handling the problem. It is passing the buck. The real question is to why we suddenly have all these encampments in the first place. What leads people to being homeless and erecting tents? I have a feeling the issues leading to the problem are almost as numerous as the people involved meaning there is no one single solution if it is even a problem that can be solved using multiple programs. In the cities I've lived in they had plenty of homeless but there were not tent encampments everywhere at the time I lived there. The tent encampments we have now feel like a more recent phenomena suggesting that they were caused by a change.
Are you kidding me? In the 90s I was homeless with 4 kids, no help just buck passing. That was when there was overnight camping at Dash Point State park, many homeless there but I did not stay more than a night, the drug activity was out of control. I went to the Easton state Park and from there I figured out a plan to get some housing. Eventually I was picked up by a domestic violence organization and got the help I needed. I accepted the help that is what is needed, you have to want help.
I work for City of Bellevue, we take homeless encampment reports very seriously. Mostly because we don't want them messing up surface water quality and our fish bearing streams.
That’s good to hear - I hope this trend continues. What about Kirkland? Are they in a similar way of thinking?
@@Mav0585 I'm not sure about Kirkland, but I can imagine that they are in a similar vein due to the wealth of their customers just as we have wealthy customers. We have the staff and resources to take care of these things from people's tax dollars and utility bills. Stormwater and Water Quality (paid through utility bill) work with police and the homeless coordination group (paid through taxes), so you get a double dip of funds to put towards the issue. Plus, we actually care. There are only three admins that answer the phones for the entire City of Bellevue (I am one of them), so, I CARE that your issue it taken care of because if its not, the chances are 1 in 3 that I will take your more angry call next week lol
@@Aetriex Thank you for your services. I love Bellevue and when my family visits in a few weeks we will be spending all of our time there instead of Seattle. A question for you though. Who do you think is mostly responsible for the Seattle encampments? As someone who isn't in public service i see the Mayor blames the city council, the city council blames the police and the police say they have no ground to stand on. What department or resource is suppose to take care of this?
@@Mav0585 The whole Eastside is the same way. People live on the Eastside because they don’t want to live in the Seattle filth.
@@Jsart87 "What department or resource is suppose to take care of this?"
The Seattle voters, which is really why the problem will only get worse.
Seattle residents should demand a refund for every tax dollar that was allocated to public parks for the last 12 months.
Prediction: Seattle residents won't do this. In fact, they will re-elect everyone on the city council and the mayor.
This!!!
Why would they demand a refund? They voted for the mess they're in. The residents should be fined for stupidity.
I've worked in Down Town Seattle for years as a vendor. Not one time have I seen a legit emergency response for a normal citizen. Of the crazy number of times I've seen emergency services respond, it's been for overdoses, unresponsive drunks in commercial entryways etc. All homeless people, 100%.
Who do you think pays for that?
Many years ago I was pumping gas at a station just off I-90 on Rainier Ave. While I was pumping gas I watched a police vehicle with "Mercer Island" markings drive into the gas station parking lot. They let a man out of the back of the vehicle. Then handed him something that look like cash. The police officer said,"Don't come back to Mercer Island".
Yes, that’s what would also happen in California. The nicer areas would take them downtown and concentrate them on Skid Row. Now they are just everywhere. I now see why people protest public transportation. That’s how they seep in. Out here, they just get on the trains, nobody stops them for fare, and come to the nicer areas and lay about doing drugs.
There was a story about a year or 2 ago that exposed big blue cities like NYC, Boston, etc paying homeless like $1,000 and giving them one way tickets to CA, OR, WA. to get their official homeless numbers down. other homeless migrate to the west coast and hawaii because the warm weather makes living outside a little easier. Sometimes they come back. Once the story came out they started putting homeless in nice hotels in nice neighborhoods and the stories that came out about the resulting shenanigans are many. Some say the paying homeless to leave still happens, but many dont want to go because they already have a familiar area and ways to get things that may not continue if they had to start over in a strange place across the continent.
@@r3sfernjbb Whats going to happen when the new light rail opens between Seattle (skid row) and Belleuve.. ? I dont think it will last long.
That's been going on for years. I was born in Seattle and grew up in Redmond. I worked in Seattle and they loaded them on buses and send them to South Seattle.
This was the most informative podcast of this series in a long time, for me anyway. I moved out of Seattle last year because I couldn't stand it. So, it really is a matter of the will of the municipality to serve it's own citizens. Says a lot (not good) for Seattle.
Exactly why I have not set foot in Seattle for years
You know that voting Democrat is the reason why Seattle is dying, right?
Bellevue does not hate their cops. Yet.
I'm sure school system is teaching cop hate - takes time.
You got that right. If they allow CRT in their public schools then they will eventually be just like Seattle. Its in WA State afterall.
Sad
Because cops in Bellevue always side with aggressive employees who assault customers for not wearing masks such as when that gas station cashier assaulted that female
@@arturocamaney9235 I googled it says she pulled a gun.
@@muskepticsometimes9133 She didn't pull the gun until AFTER he physically shoved her out the doors. Go watch the surveillance footage provided by the news channel instead of going by the headline alone. Her only mistake was pulling it AFTER he had gone back inside instead of _during_ the scuffle. Despite that, the judge released her on her own recognizance (no need to post bail) and her only punishment was to stay away from the convenience store (which is easy since she doesn't even live in King County). Bellevue PD always try to make nonsensical arrests, but it never works out for them in the long-run.
Bellevue is run by grownups who understand what it takes for commerce to flourish.
Mask nah-zees, you mean
They ruined Bellevue and made it unaffordable over the past 40-50 years. Bad zoning laws which favored large corporations. Bellevue was initially designed as gracious country living, suburban housing for Seattle. My dad lived in Bellevue from 1961 until he died in 2014. Taxes alone are outrageous. Bellevue is a wealthy enclave, and not at all middle class anymore.
The wildlife congregates where there is free stuff. It is common sense.
This
Wildlife:)
That’s about to be all of the america. “Free healthcare, free college, free free free” oh my.
I almost got in a 5 car pileup on highway 18 last year. This is near the summit where there is nothing. Well it was because 2 tweakers darted across like dear. As I slowly drove by i saw a fresh junkie camp up there.(in the boonies mind you). Fear not sean...its coming
Unfortunately that is true because after all its still in Washington State
In the end its about the composition of the voters. In Portland most people don't want to enforce laws and they will willfully vote every bond measure for homeless causes
People that actually WANT to get off the streets don't stay in the northwest USA. Homelessness is rewarded there, not resolved.
Great podcast. It ought to be required listening for city councils in Portland, Seattle and all the other leftist cesspool cities.
Except for the fact that the police and politicians in Bellevue share no ideological difference with those in Seattle and Portland. Bellevue PD arrested a woman because she defended herself against an aggressive male employee who assaulted her for not wearing a mask inside of a convenience store. Fortunately, the judge released her on her own recognizance instead of setting a bail amount of 75,000 dollars like the D.A. asked him to do
I don't see how it's a human right to do something illegal. I mean help the homeless but no way tents, and drugs are right.
Lack of Leadership in Seattle. We have clowns in the Mayor's office and in the City Council.
Don't forget the governor
You also have clowns who voted them in.
@@joevarga5982 Agree!
Some cities enforce existing laws. Others submit to the demands of extremists and their lawyers. In Los Angeles, the difference between "City of Los Angeles" regions versus other incorporated cities within the region is night and day. The tents literally will end where the LA City limit ends and a separately incorporated city begins.
Same with San Francisco. The crime and homeless stop at the SF county border and do not cross into San Mateo county.
@@poodlescone9700 sadly, in LA County, the same activist lawyers who forced LA City to stop enforcing laws, are now working on a strategy to sue the other cities into submission, from what I understand they are prioritizing it based on which ones have the highest amount of homeless on average.
Many of the homeless in my opinion, want the services and opportunities that society provides access to, without the societal contract of behavior. Go live by yourself in the middle of nowhere otherwise.
That's cuz the educational system no longer teaches kid what a resident's social responsibility is. They only teach propagandas like all humans are good in nature, we should love each other, you have your freedom, we respect each other even both are a*holes, etc. But primary schools no longer teach finance 101, society 101, which are the essential knowledge of producing responsible residents.
No no no... we don't need that In the sticks... they wanted this in the big cities, now it can stay.
@@mingchi1855 I have a different view. You can't rely on schools to teach your children social responsibility. Parents are the problem. I'm over 70 and I involved myself with my kids.
@@mingchi1855 thats right. I never learned about unemployment, so when my temporary 6 month position ended i spent 2 summer months looking for work totally broke before a relative told me to apply for unemployment insurance benefits since i paid taxes since i was in high school. I felt like an idiot.
With all this talk of defunding police.
I can honestly see major metropolitan areas like Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Baltimore, Minneapolis, and others becoming "dumping" grounds for the criminal element.
Similar to how cities and states across the country have dumped their homeless populations on the West Coast.
If suburban areas can really get aggressive on crime and basically push their local criminal element into those major cities.
In a nutshell, it'll make those places into giant, containment areas where the dregs of society can be safely isolated from the rest of the country.
Similar to how the city of Los Angeles set up Skid Row as a containment hub for that city's entire homeless population.
This is why I strongly support defunding the police in those major cities. As it'll make the rest of the country safer as criminals flock to, or are pushed heavily into those cities en'masse.
Cities run by democrats have been crime infested shit holes for a long time w/ drug use & homelessness on the rise. They soon will be 10 times worse. That is why I refuse to live or even visit cities. They are cesspools of cultural rot.
Yup escape from New York LA. Portland settle. Their making city’s prison for thugs an crazy’s. Then the Democratic Party will say we need a national police force here comes the storm troops.
Wake up Earthlings
🤔🤔🤔🤔
Does this remind anyone of movies from about twenty years ago?
Then when the major corporations pull out they become food deserts and they start raiding incursions into the suburbs
There are the ones that camp in a extremely public spot obviously to draw attention. We have a gang that begs at the local shopping center. At their shift change, the person in a wheelchair gets up to let the next guy sit and he walks off.
Seattle, King County and the Feds should partner and use the GSA Warehouses in Auburn for a secured Homeless Center with Prefabricated housing cubicles, storage, RV parking and Services. That's where you send cleared camps to, the SODO RV's, etc. This would supplement the hotels and tiny home villages.
Also use facility for work training - can you make Nice Prefabricated Tiny homes there? Eventually those will become the new Starter Homes for those not making $100K in King County.
If Seattle is serious about helping the Homeless and People of Color, you have to offer Opportunity that become hard skills - so one can earn a living. The GSA Warehouse can offer valuable Construction training to those who want it.
Great idea I have posted similar thoughts lets see if any of the WOKE geniuses pick it up
please stop trying to bring common sense into the picture.
What? You expect them to work?!?!?! Great idea but working is not in these people's vocabulary.
How many do you think would come to a facility like that!! Obviously you didn't here what was said, hotel take over, 4 out of forty took the offered help. Get real, most do not want rules.
I live in Aylmer QC and we definitely don’t allow camping anywhere you want.
In kent we don't have tents in parks. I really treasure our kent police. We need police 🚔. We are a VERY diverse community.
In San Francisco some homeless pitched a bunch of tents across the street from a residential street in the back of the Safeway until the residents there petitioned to have them removed.
And our city's voters still elect the same progressive lunatics that double down on failed policies so the problem moves to other parts of town. Notice the homeless do not cross the border into San Mateo county.
@@poodlescone9700 Yeah it’s called kick the can down the road - not in my backyard. London Breed and her ilk know this game very well.
There are huge camps in BELLEVUE. They are called Low Income housing. Buildings full of convicted felons and you wouldn't even know they were there because the media covers for them. My wife used to manage them but I made her quit after weeks of federal warrants being served on multiple units. So, just because you don't see tents, doesn't mean they aren't there.
The point being that the parks are for functional people, kids and families to play in, not for the homeless to live in, agreed?
Better out of sight than living in tents on city streets, though.
This is a stereotypical thought about people in low income housing.
I’m am in Portland in a Low housing apartment.. I’m not a felon, just someone in her 20s who can’t afford an average price apartment here right now
@@Avatar_momo Maybe you should move to a cheaper city.
"stay out of Malibu, Lebowski!"
As the beachfront cop told the big loboski "get your goldbricking,homeless a$$ out of my peaceful rich suburb."
People with the kind of money that Bellevue homeowners typically have tend to vote for politicians that promise them safety and security; something that is usually a cornerstone of their political platform.
Is that a bad thing???
Houses in Seattle are very expensive yet the city keeps voting against its own interests. Something else is at play here.
@@megadog_ It's mostly Virtue Signaling, and misplaced White Guilt. They'll won't quit the virtue signaling until the people they are signaling to begin punching them in the face. "But I'm on *YOUR* side!", will be their famous last words.
@@Einh0ven Not at all. The problem is that at the State and Federal level, they continually vote for the idiots that enable this crap in major cities throughout the country. As long as it isn't in *their* backyard, they're ok with it.
@@megadog_ King County has a population of 2.2m people. Seattle has a population of under 800K. Many of the goods and services for the homeless in King County are located in Seattle the county seat.
I'm not saying that Seattle isn't a cess-pool of liberal/socialist/commie limp wristed bleeding hearts but, it's laughable that the rest of the County/State would dump their homeless problems on Seattle then flex on them when the obvious problems ensue. I'm not saying that this is what you or Sean are doing. Just saying that there is a bigger picture here then just "Bellevue has excellent Policing". Although generally I would agree with that statement.
Other cities in King County have been dumping their homeless in Seattle for decades. Don't come and poop on my lawn then call my yard a toilet.
My city not messed up yet. We can have bus tickets to drop off our bums in Seattle
You must live in Bellvevue.
The last thing many homeless want is to be "hassled" by civilians.
I'd use a bulldozer or borrowed city truck with snow plow.
Bellevue is going to be a parking lot Sean,,bel Red to 8th is going to be insane within a few years.
I tapped out.
simple. bellvue wants all of the business moving out of seattle. they also have a fully funded police force.
It’s about good governance. We need a city to be proud of. Homelessness is a blight and homeless encampments are a scar on a city. It does cause inconvenience for people who are homeless, but not enforcing causes real damage to the city as well, and prevents true progress from occurring.
Just come back from Naples FL. I saw 0 homeless people there in 11 days, few in Sarasota and Hollywood but it’s not like in Seattle
I lived in west Seattle. Worked in Everett at Boeing. Was a Realtor investor too in Bellevue for Jerry Simon. Seaco east downtown Bellevue. Sean I was there 1988 at age 27. Then I saw the ugly side of Seattle. My rental house by high point projects area. The crazy drug addicts who would be hanging out in Maggie's on Delridge and the delridge tap. Homeless people had a place to go if you could stay with friends. Harder to do today
There's homeless people who bus around Bellevue. But the sidewalks and parks are clean. No tents seen.
Doesn't the City have any front end loaders?
What happened with the property given to chop blm gang? Also what happened to the nighttime welding in the camp? Thanks
One of the most successful methods are the tiny home clusters where people can have a stable private space, have an address, have a way to shower and do laundry. From there, they can get training, get a job and get back into society. But drugs and booze are not allowed in those places.
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If the first homeless to move in were told to move along the problem wouldn't have gotten out of hand. Now that it's overwhelming I'm afraid it's only going to get worse.
Because Bellevue is where the middle American’s reside.
They don’t want trash in their own backyard now do they?
It is going to be that way. I use to be homeless in a park. Not anymore, it's easy to get there all you have to do is slip and fall without any support. I was put there by the police. I cannot say that for everyone but 1 day before the park I worked and paid to live in a hotel the police took my my foundation and the floor was right there and I was in a state where I had no family but I got out with the word of God.you are speculating. But I will say that mental illness is a part of long term homelessness another factor is drug use I was out in 40 days and fourth nights.
I’m guessing the homeless do not impact the city leaders or their families.
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The homeless didn't impact Bellevue's city leaders or families either. Impact of the homeless on city leaders isn't the difference between Seattle and Bellevue.
Tale of two cities , Seattle or Bellevue , all one has to do is look around and see the difference .
You will never see this story .. let alone news titles such as this on our local 4/5/7 news. They don't like to cover the real stories or at least do the comparisons and try to understand what really is going on.
If you could do this 3 step system - it is too big now - Aug 2023, Maybe if you take a six block section at a time, clean that up and
move on. Do not let trash move back to a clean area.
It is all about the local politicans, select your local and state leaders carefully and make them accountable. It is the only way to defend your home, your beloved city/state from falling into the hands of Evil Elitist who think we are their peasants and owns us.
I'm going to make a guess at the answer before seeing the video...."because Bellevue is NOT DUMB-ASS?" Could that, perhaps, be correct?
there are a few homeless in Redmond and Kirkland. I'm in Portland and we have a homeless guy in my apartment's tool shed who is a packrat. I just grabbed a jerry can out of his stuff and threw it out with the recycling this morning because I don't want him having gasoline out there.
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They don't want to accept housing because community housing will not allow drugs or alchohol. If someone is just down on their luck and needs job training and a bit of help, it is in society's own interest to give it to them. They don't want to be on the streets exposed to substance abusers. But that is not what addicts or drunks want. By the time they've been on the streets long enough with these habits, they are probably beyond help. And that does not begin to address those who are mentally ill.
Why did the podcast name change
The reasonable people are there is why 😊
Zero consequences for actions = zero incentive to change.
little more stick, little less carrot
Ya, Know fire season is starting, hope the tents are fire proof!
Even though I do not believe in defunding the police I do believe we have too many police sometimes I think we live in a police state we had to have tougher laws and less police
Keeping them on the streets, keeps more money in their pockets. After all the money to help the unfortunate would not go in their pockets.
Wall street journal, realtor.com, Forbes magazine just listed Coeur d’Alene, Idaho as the number one emerging real estate market in the country. We don’t have a homeless or crime problem here and we are a red city & state and, we probably back our police officers.
Every city has a Vagrancy Law in it's books, knowing that prosperity attracts unemployed or the unemployable who will migrate to and destroy the city.
Because it's harder to steal electricity
Until we stop these city governments from getting federal handouts for their homeless problem it will only get worse! These cities get bonus cash for every homeless person they have, so the more homeless they have the more money the city gets! Homeless populations are lucrative so the incentive is to make as many people as they can homeless!
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I can answer that before even watching the vid; we men of the Bellevue(?) community aren’t allowing it.
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4:20 It's because Bellevue forcefully relocates the homeless to other areas (passes the buck) regardless of whether that is Constitutional or not. Bellevue therefore is not handling this better than any other area. Telling someone there might be some kind of housing in other towns while forcefully kicking them out of your town is not handling the problem. It is passing the buck.
The real question is to why we suddenly have all these encampments in the first place. What leads people to being homeless and erecting tents? I have a feeling the issues leading to the problem are almost as numerous as the people involved meaning there is no one single solution if it is even a problem that can be solved using multiple programs.
In the cities I've lived in they had plenty of homeless but there were not tent encampments everywhere at the time I lived there. The tent encampments we have now feel like a more recent phenomena suggesting that they were caused by a change.
That change you talked about is the woke progressive movement that allows this behavior
Are you kidding me? In the 90s I was homeless with 4 kids, no help just buck passing. That was when there was overnight camping at Dash Point State park, many homeless there but I did not stay more than a night, the drug activity was out of control. I went to the Easton state Park and from there I figured out a plan to get some housing. Eventually I was picked up by a domestic violence organization and got the help I needed. I accepted the help that is what is needed, you have to want help.
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Simple answer, Seattle is more progressive, more caring than the mean folks in Bellevue!!!
Seattle is a liberal filled piss whole. More caring, hahaha. Why don't you invite them to camp in your back yard.
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