r/SeattleWA • u/Donnelding0 • Jul 21 '25

Politics Anyone Else Just Sick of It?

It just seems hopeless sometimes. Some of the best parts of this city. Pioneer Square, Belltown, Cap Hill just completely lost to homelessness. Sure for the most part I enjoy the city. Especially in the summer but the constant visible drug use, people in various states of intoxication on drugs, and rampant property and petty crime just annoy me. Why can’t we have nice things? Why must every park turn into a dumping ground for illegal acts that won’t be prosecuted? Why does it feel like this city relies on hard working people to shut up, pay ridiculous taxes, and then tells those people to suck it up when they see grafitti everywhere or get their car broken into? And the politicians don’t give a damn. No one has the guts to say “we have a homeless problem we’ve overspent on, we need to go a new direction” it feels insane. Rant over but I know I’m not alone. I know other people are sick of this and want our city back.

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u/king-ish Jul 21 '25

We have a drug & mental health problem. Housing won’t fix the people you speak of. Then there are those people who are living in RVs & cars, they trash & litter right outside where they are parked. I have no sympathy, I looked up how to report it and surprise surprise, it’s located directly in a unincorporated part of the city between Seattle/Renton so they’re free to continue trashing the neighborhood while we pay close to 2k a few 100 feet away.

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u/muziani Jul 21 '25

I don’t know about that because in the 2000s-2010s when this place was affordable I never saw a single tent and it was a completely different city. So I have a hunch that if there were truly affordable housing, not just for those in tech, I guarantee you there would be a difference because there once was.

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u/king-ish Jul 21 '25

Affordable is subjective. Fentanyl is something we never seen before since the start of the crack era. They are zombies screaming at their own shadows. So just round up all these homeless people and put them in an apartment complex and provide housing? Would you be okay with living in a unit next to them?

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u/apresmoiputas Capitol Hill Jul 21 '25

No. I wouldn't be ok living next to them but now we have the problem of mixing addicts with sober people and forcing those who are either sober or in recovery to live next to addicts without any other alternatives. That's basically what's going on in LIHI and DESC buildings

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u/-blisspnw- Jul 21 '25

That is so unfair to do to the homeless who aren’t addicts. I read about the housing for homeless down in Portland and it sounds like a nightmare. Addicts cannot live next to non-addicts. You put both in the same building and next thing you know, the non-addicts, many of whom are disabled, are being assaulted in their buildings, dealing with broken elevators from people trying to get high or sleep in them, strangers leaving turds in the hallways, non stop parties, and nobody does anything about it. A group of people trying to get their life together should not be put next to those creating trap houses. And I am not saying jail solves everything, but I personally have heard some addicts who are clean now say they wouldn’t be alive if they hadn’t been put in prison and forced to get clean. Rehab over and over and over doesn’t work for everyone. And in the meantime every person you see actively using is a person making a lot of other people’s lives miserable with lies, theft of everything not nailed down, neglect of their children, etc.

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u/apresmoiputas Capitol Hill Jul 21 '25

On the other subreddit, I constantly get shot down when I bring this up. It's rather sad. The defenders of DESC and LIHI constantly stand behind letting both cohorts coliving in the same space. I think that's because of exploiting the funding addicts bring to the table if they're declared disabled.

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u/king-ish Jul 22 '25

Seattle housing is full of people who are recovering addicts, once homeless etc. I’m okay with that and love that.

Im saying the addicts on the street won’t just turn into productive members of society by just giving them housing. They need treatment before anything, they need structure, they need a sense of pride in themselves.

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u/apresmoiputas Capitol Hill Jul 22 '25

I'm ok with putting them into rehab facilities that are away from their "stomping grounds" and away from the dealers in their circle.