30.00% - Get people out of the elements first — no one should be sleeping outside in this climate. Shelter before everything else.
27.50% - Micro-shelter villages on vacant city lots are a faster path to dignity than waiting years for permanent housing.
22.50% - Telling Seattle's unhoused to move somewhere cheaper ignores the family ties that bind people to a place — that's not a policy, it's indifference.
20.00% - Homelessness at this scale requires deliberate intervention — resources, accountability, and clear metrics — not indefinite tolerance.
Most of Seattle's homeless population originally lived in the area.
50.00% - Telling Seattle's unhoused to move somewhere cheaper ignores the family ties that bind people to a place — that's not a policy, it's indifference.
25.00% - Many of Seattle's homeless are still working — in construction, service jobs, the gig economy — but can't afford housing on what they earn. They're local workers without a home.
25.00% - Micro-shelter villages on vacant city lots are a faster path to dignity than waiting years for permanent housing.
50.00% - Most of Seattle's homeless population originally lived in the area.
50.00% - The narrative that Seattle's homelessness is driven by in-migration is factually wrong.
0.00% - Most of Seattle’s homeless are local residents.
50.00% - Seattle metropolitan area
