International District community angered by homeless shelter expansion

[@JYDIVISN]

Good for her for speaking out.

[@WeThePeepHole333]

Good For Her For Speaking out! I agree! However she may want to prepare for the rash of retaliation coming her way from the city and it's code compliance officers, fire marshall, local P.D. and 3rd party business partners that go as far as local homeless people performing certain dirty deeds for pay from offices within city of Seattle! No offense to the homeless , in just stating that as I know of & how some things get done by city officials! It's really really PigThetic!;

[@marcjones9879]

I have to agree with this young lady. The city Seattle council are not your friends. Actions speak louder than their BS.

[@VesperAegis]

I would like to know what the International District has thus far done to help the homeless. How many businesses have reached out and made the situation better, or distributed aid? I'm not saying many didn't help, however, if you are on the side that did nothing about the problem and now are upset about "encroachment," these are the fruits of such lack of efforts and empathy. Not caring about those in need and focusing on individualism has serious consequences for an entire community. Insularism and "minding your own business" when people suffer around you is a perfect way to create problematic outcomes.

[@marcjones9879]

"Homeless" ppl give homeless people a bad name. Homelessness for the majority of these folks is a behavioral issue which lead them to the streets through poor decisions based on selfish addiction and mental health/self medication problems. What more should communities DO to keep them on their fix? It's insane to allow these behaviors to develop as far as this. Washington has nothing for addicts and community suffers. Addicts just walk out of rehab bc they can with a big fat bill at the end of the day, for nothing! Give give give... is not the solution. Mandatory rehab, jail, hospitals for the mental is the only solution.

[@VesperAegis]

@@larryj1048 The more difficult the challenge of communicating and engendering common ground and understanding and empathy, the more important it is to establish dialogue and amicable relations with people in destitute states. What it means is that the bridge has been continuously burned for such a significant amount of time that it has gotten this bad, and will get worse without effort at dialectic. The ultimate fruits of dogmatic individualism are societal walls closing around you as you ignore problems and people around you. The harder the challenge, the more important it is to meet it. Especially when human beings are concerned.

[@sprsmoke]

@@VesperAegis What have you done?

[@VesperAegis]

@@sprsmoke Not enough, that's for sure, but every time there is a question of individualism versus working collectively to solve problems as opposed to ignoring people in trouble, you will find me firmly advocating for helping people. Half of the battle is just being on the right side of history and admitting that dogmatic individualism as a philosophical stance is not the answer. The next is action.

[@sgarrita2561]

She makes a great point because the asian community tends not to be super vocal they do get taken advantage of… social services should be where needed but also dispersed so as not to overburden one community

[@M00PSY]

No she doesn’t! Taken advantage of? You know that 70-80% of unhoused people are from the local area or lived there for a year or longer before becoming unhoused, right? So they ARE a part of the community too! So wouldn’t it be racist not to help?

[@indianatarzan7555]

For god's sake Asians need to 1) start voting, and 2) stop voting against your own interests. They have this ridiculous aversion to voting (at least the older generation) due to cultural habits and that's the number 1 reason they're getting screwed left-right and sideways.

[@sprsmoke]

Please provide a source to back up your dubious claims.

[@darthbuckethead2471]

That community is forever Overburdened.

[@darthbuckethead2471]

That community is forever Overburdened.

[@KN-eh2fh]

Same thing happened in San Francisco too. One day all of a sudden there's a sign right across my place saying the site will be built as a homeless shelter. I was shocked!!!! No out reach to nearby residents, no letter in the mail holding a hearing before the project. They are so sneaky!!

[@darthbuckethead2471]

I remember growing up in the 80s in Portland and seeing bumper stickers that said "Keep California out of Oregon!" Yeah.... that went well... Pretty sure those same people are voting for the folks that put them in that position.

[@leegoddard2618]

Why TF should there be. These people are surviving as well as you. You are part of the problem,you know.

[@KN-eh2fh]

@@leegoddard2618 they are not surviving. they are free loading like you.

[@leegoddard2618]

@@KN-eh2fh ok. Keep thinking that way. You are part of the problem.

[@leegoddard2618]

@@KN-eh2fh I work. How am I "freeloading". That is why YOU Are part of the problem, you p.o.s.

[@jerryloufretz1797]

What a disaster for the CID people. These shelters need to be spread around the city, not all in one district.

[@gjune36]

I can already imagine the district rep: " we reached out to dozens, several dozens of groups."

[@yusufgerald3969]

My favorite Chinese restaurant has closed. It was there for at least 20 years. The international district looks horrible now.

[@katalac]

Honestly...how dare they make decisions like this without input from the business owners that would be directly affected..that's not how business is supposed to be conducted..seems very underhanded

[@VesperAegis]

Business owners demand that the city reaches out to them before they get hurt by the pandemic's results. How many business owners "reached out" to the homeless community during their time of need?

[@Epicface888chu]

@@norml.hugh-mann We pay for it. They just don’t care about what people say, if their directors made up their minds. Politicians are about them getting paid from the Fed “taxpayers money” to allow people not to work. The homeless gets a dog, cell phone, money, free food and don’t have to work. But they don’t realize the disease due to being dirty. CREATING SUPER BUGS.

[@Epicface888chu]

@@VesperAegis Did you reach out to the homeless? I did. Most don’t want to work they told me. One of them decided to be homeless because he rather die outside due to his cancer and didn’t want to burden his family, didn’t want any help. One of my coworker who is in his 20s quit his job because he said that he tried out being homeless and made $300 or more a day. Now a days everyone knows about the scams, so people don’t want to help anymore. The people who really need help, got a hotel but still wants to live outside because they don’t like the rules to be clean.

[@Epicface888chu]

Sue the King County. COME TOGETHER. This is messed up people because they don’t want want it at their neighborhood. Put it to the Officials who approved these projects to be at their living and working area. Put it at City Hall, they feel sorry for people who don’t want to work and get taxpayers money to play.

[@carlosgomez8663]

Collect signatures from the entire community to stop paying taxes until the city councils star doing their jobs.

[@darthbuckethead2471]

"No taxation without representation". Literally in our Constitution.

[@mariesong729]

Great that the city is helping the unhoused but my question is where are all the churches? They are given money consistently and don’t pay taxes why are they not helping their community out.

[@JK-co4lz]

Don't be a dumb dumb and use that relabeling campaign bs. They are homeless, not 'the unhoused'.

[@katalac]

Great question 🤔

[@marcjones9879]

Of all the 'bridges' addicts manage to burn, the church was the first. Rules, courtesy, decency are not a part of the addiction lifestyle.

[@mariesong729]

@@nw-by-n it’s not a notion. Two super churches just had their 501 (c) 3 taken from them for preaching about politics. They have allowed them selves to become more vocal regarding their stance politically. It was well deserved that that was pulled from them. You have to be hiding under a rock to not see the movement with churches, their donating to candidates and pushing for laws they have no business pushing. Churches should not be involved with political issues! Periodt!

[@mariesong729]

@@nw-by-n how long ago was it that you went to the church? Not all churches are up front about their political views. Many donate to these things without the knowledge of the church folk. Regardless they do not pay taxes and should be giving back to the community they are in. Free from taxes does not mean free from obligation to your community

[@darthbuckethead2471]

I miss King 5 investigations. I remember several pieces done in the mid 90s that held integrity for news media. However, I moved away in 2015 and will never return. The news stations done cover real news anymore. If they do, it's like this... The reason I'll never go back to the West Coast is the pure spinelessness of politicians in that area. I feel like politicians in major cities are paid by "crime bosses" to look the other way. Maybe this is something King 5 should look into, just to show some journalistic integrity.

[@MauriceRivers415]

NYC, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Honolulu and San Francisco are constantly on the news for their high rates of homelessness: what's the end game here? For one, there needs to be more oversight for funding allocated to addressing homelessness in the first place. A large chunk of these nonprofits that receive local/federal funding, are a HUGE part of the problem.: the people who want to get off the streets, can't. They give them just enough resources/information to check off a box, but not a real ladder to escape chronic homelessness/drug addiction.

[@smar5812]

Of course KC Council did, racists group that doesn’t think of others. International District has be burdened and then will leave them on their own. No police presence and a bunch of claims that will result in more damage to the community. Shameful

[@jamieabbucher]

You guys vote for other people who live with what you get

[@ella_lovelife9641]

Not all the Asian the same, you know Asian has a huge difference among different characters. I’ve never take advantage of any social benefits here, I pay everything and even more. It is unfair to categorize and put a tag on some nice people just because other Asian or some stereotype

[@Epicface888chu]

I asked several homeless who are not violent. Most don’t want to work they told me. One of them decided to be homeless because he rather die outside due to his cancer and didn’t want to burden his family, didn’t want any help. One of my coworker who is in his 20s quit his job because he said that he tried out being homeless and made $300 or more a day. Now a days everyone knows about the scams, so people don’t want to help anymore. The people who really need help, got a hotel but still wants to live outside because they don’t like the rules to be clean.

[@IslandBuzzy]

It's amazing that this community even exists after all they have suffered and struggled through since the late 1800s in Seattle. Persecuted for their race, stereotyped, forcibly expelled and beaten. Their parents, grandparents and great grandparents had to hide and conduct normal life, practically underground for fear of prejudice and the judgement that came with it. There was actually a "Chinese Exclusion Act" created at the time, that many used as an excuse to physically attack Seattle's Chinese population in an attempt to drive them out of the state or just "get rid" of them. Many of the old businesses were established with absolutely no help from traditional banks, as Asians were unable to obtain loans based on their "status" which really equated to their skin color. There were only a few outsiders that stood in the gap and championed the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Hawaiians that found shelter in that community as they worked hard on labor forces that helped build and feed Seattle as well as outlying cities. While those days are gone, the Asian community as a whole, is one that honors and embraces their history, both good and bad and continue to use it as motivation to improve the life, not only for their own people, but for all who visit, live, and do business in what is now called the "International District". Truth be told, you can ask any SPD officer, these encampments, no matter how well planned, become a haven for drug users, prostitutes, thieves, felons and more. Unfortunately there are very few success stories and the problem mounts! If you do a search on Asian hate crimes in Seattle, which is becoming more of a problem, the majority of them are done at the hands of someone who resides in a homeless encampment, or claims to, and therefore, frankly, is sadly dismissed by the rest of Seattle society. This is the reality of life, over the centuries, in and around Chinatown, Seattle. Their people have worked, fought and died to create a true workable, livable, sustainable community, and hopefully to keep their own people off the streets. It's absolutely unfair to flip the script on these people and question their responsibility regarding the homeless situation that the leadership of Seattle and King County should be shouldering!

[@lady4191]

I wish with all my heart that I was comfortable enough to go down to that part of town and shot because I would give them as much business as I possibly could this is outrageous

[@ella_lovelife9641]

I can clearly feel this racist, three years ago when i and my baby went to a nearby park, a white man immediately stand up and left us as far as he can, and shows a very very mean face to me, but I Can hear what he said, something like I shouldn’t use the park. But I’ve never been to Wuhan all through my life and even didn’t sure about this disease, since I don’t live there and don’t have any relatives live there. But they juge me only by my skin or something😢 and another time when I had a walk in Kirkland, there is a brown man staring at me whenever I went, and shows a body language that he will come up to beat me, but 😢you know I try not be afraid and nicely say hi to some of the strangers and then he became less aggressive. This is insane, over ten years ago I saw so many nice people, and they smile and be friendly! This area had been changed although the buildings and environment not changed so much. People changed here, they are not nice anymore

[@mrfunatparties6763]

Bet you she still votes Democrat

[@jodylancaster8706]

And therein lies her problem.

[@johndoll1511]

And the city leaders could not care less.

[@uponastar]

So sad this is happening!!!

[@kimchi_taco]

Someone pretends to be a nice guy but others pay. Gross 🤢

[@IDK_Mr.M]

There is a lot of space available in SODO there is to much in China town.

[@mariaapolo2602]

I respect the Asian community as a Latina the Asian community has helped me

[@kimmatheson5752]

The ongoing, tax payer funded, 'Save the Junkies and Bums' program.

[@schoolingdiana9086]

No, it’s not. Get informed before you post.

[@kimmatheson5752]

@@schoolingdiana9086 Or what?

[@valerienagle3266]

If only they would do something about human trafficking in their community.

[@Mariam-kg7fr]

Exactly.. They're such a "polite" community that they politely let their "massage" businesses get away with sex trafficking.

[@TexasToastMon]

I'm dead lmao please help

[@valerienagle3266]

@@Mariam-kg7fr the city continues to license new massage parlors, as well. Pretty sure that human trafficking is essential to the local economy.

[@sonicflash5090]

What a waste of money, kick them all out of here.

[@katalac]

Be quiet

[@seabrookcity8778]

What a mess like a hillary Clinton campaign .

[@earthgerl]

Unfortunately your state has 350,000 homeless people which your entire state has been politely ignoring for decades. So while poverty might be a inconvience for your community, you need to stop brushing off the homeless and engage is resolving the problem instead of trying to push it off.

[@VesperAegis]

Yup, just another case of NIMBYism. No matter where you move them, someone will complain because they irrationally fear a boogeyman that doesn't exist. In my experience, homeless cause relatively few problems in their general location, especially when they are shown compassion and consideration.

[@IDK_Mr.M]

The state has closer to a million homeless people And close to 3 million people living with a roommate in the state of Washington. That is almost half of the people in the state unable to afford to live in the state. The extra high our-of-touch taxes and regulations have caused low income people unable to live a normal life in the state. An apartment that went for $300 a month in 2002 is now $2300 a month. Income hasn't kept up with the outrageous increase. Most of that is due to the large companies like Microsoft and Amazon and Boeing with out of control property inflation. This is all ignored and leaving it alone as long as they have has created an environment that is unsustainable.

[@missf4681]

@@IDK_Mr.M with all thus homelessness and no solution why are they bringing in 100s of thousands of illegal immigrants. There is no where to live for the people already here

[@tock509]

Move them to your backyard.

[@spiritualservicesgodbless7641]

Thnk you, lvoe bug, for the video.

[@leegoddard2618]

Hmm, I can understand her concerns. That is a lot of shelters in a small area, but that Is an UNdesirable part of a town. Backside of the waterfront right by freeways.

[@salah4501]

22 million to operate one center?

[@charleselliott5767]

She makes a good point but...the city will make a mockery out this whole ordeal, and genuine people who care about the community will get swept under the rug. IF there really is as much rascism and hate towards the community that is the majority living there, I think this needs to be taken care of immediately, but the flip side of that is everyone is saying they are experiencing hate and rascism for clout and attention its become the new me too... until the city and its elected officials actually do business for the people instead of agendas fueled by dollar signs, we will continue to live in a cycle of oppression , no matter what color you are.. Also division is the last thing we need, integration would be better.. thats a two way street... Theres many in chinatown that dont speak english and refuse to learn...and theres also many asian groups that stay completely segregated from the rest of seattle, we need to learn to live together and care for one another..ohterwise were gonna end up with a city just like most county jails and prison end up...divided by color and race.....

[@coachjordan1717]

Homelessness shouldn't be a crime, but the way these people takeover and camp on the city streets should be illegal. Build a bigger county jail and house these people in a controlled environment.

[@anon681]

The people are already there so move em then? you can’t make everyone happy they are drug addicts before they are homeless supply follows demand. Puro jale y botones azules aka blues n cris stay loyal to the foil Seattle

[@anon681]

@@sarbantz never has ….have ever given em methadone clucks a ride to the store won’t even ask you if it’s ok they’ll just pull out a tooter and foil an make the whole car smell like popcorn/ rubber burnin….. $till alive $tay Loyal to the foil

[@joelmillard1397]

Makin $$ off the "homeless"

[@TexasToastMon]

Yall love your handlers....

[@johnalley8397]

Bleep the poor. Not in my back yard. Same shizz the rich always say.

[@susanpineda9198]

Fool me once shame on you , fool me twice shame on Wu.

[@mamasparlingshottopicsandc1702]

You people need to help your fellow man this is wrong

[@Elizapenny]

She is so right.

[@therealmrduber]

You were making sense until you pulled the race card You’re just about your own money

[@charlesmoore8958]

Didn’t we just have an election?🤔

[@joshldyer]

I used to live in one the homes owned by someone who works at a china town restaurant and they made their dumplings in my garage and never washed the machines they made the dumplings in or washed their hands or wore gloves. i found bugs living on their mixing machines. i wont eat anywhere in CHina town. they dont cook their food in the restraunts and cook in nasty garages and then drive them too those little stores and sell them. always check to make sure your store has a full size kitchen. i always wondered how these little shops make food in such a small space. i honestly think tearing down those bug and rat infested buildings are probably a good thing.

[@awen777]

Racist much?! Oh no! Not you! Chinese as a whole are some of the cleanest people. Especially when it comes to food preparation. Yes, there are exceptions. To frame this as a racial trait is despicable!

[@ubergoodair]

They voted for this...

[@migthymax9]

They need to move the shelter in the industry area

[@joshuaphillips755]

Conservatives: "I hate homeless people" Also: "I am pro-life"

[@_Diggler]

Liberals: don’t camp on my lawn…

[@roadkillgravy5168]

@@norml.hugh-mann you're tough behind a screen. Lol

[@M00PSY]

Man… this chick really needs to make the s*!% she said make sense because she just keeps contracting herself left & right! Plus, she might wanna get her facts straight before spewing this classist, NIMBY mindset BS, because if she really wants to solve these issues, but somehow expects other communities “deal with it” & is completely opposed to solutions that are actually gonna help solve those very issues, why does she expect anything to change? Cause these problems aren’t just gonna disappear if all you wanna do is just keep complaining about them! Stuff actually needs to get done! She first starts off by saying it’s somehow racist to expand the shelter & that the community has enough shelters, yet complains about all the encampments popping up, when the expansion would help eliminate the encampments! Not to mention, the very people living in those encampments that she’s complaining about are more than likely than not people who actually lived in her community, because surveys have shown that 70-80% of unhoused people are from the local area or had lived there for a year or longer before becoming unhoused! These people may have been priced out of their homes due to the pandemic recession & job losses, inflation, rent hikes, & wage stagnation, who wanna stay close to where they’re from! So wouldn’t it actually be racist not to help? Especially since the area is mostly Asian & people of color! Then she claims that it’s not the houseless folks who are the issue, even though she just got done complaining about them, but the people who supposedly “take advantage” of them, when, once again, “those people” are more than likely to be her own community members, who’ve probably been driven to do those things for the very same reasons that made people become houseless to begin with! Hell, she probably even interacts with some of these very people on a daily basis & doesn’t even realize it! It’s really sad seeing people turn against their own community members & self interests, but here we are!

[@schoolingdiana9086]

Her facts were in order and not contradictory. The King County Council is always contradictory, for the last 40 years, at least.

[@katalac]

She speaks facts..you just don't want to hear them

[@hillyseattlenarrowstreets6087]

If a Homeless Encampment popped up in your neighborhood, would you call that a positive thing to your neighborhood? If course not. Even with Shelters, so they let the people houses stay there all day, No, you have to be outside. Do a Google map search on DESC - Downtown Emergency Service Center around Seattle's Chinatown and it's surrounded with 9 facilities within a 1 mile radius. This facility mentioned is a 150 bed facility, 2 blocks South of the Uwjimaya Store. All the County is doing is introducing is a Cancer of drug addicts, people in mental crisis, repeat shoplifters and scofflaws to the Chinatown neighborhood. Seattle wants to see Chinatown die.

[@hillyseattlenarrowstreets6087]

@@norml.hugh-mann You can't stay all day in a Shelter and do drugs. What are you going to do? 1) Go to the nearest area where you're going to do it. 2) Go find money for more drugs by panhandling, shoplifting or breaking into cars. Street parking for the Mariners and any Lumen Field events will have cars surrounding this new Shelter. Keep the Cancer out

[@TexasToastMon]

Move to a red state nuff said.

[@ntwadumela374]

can't.....stop.....laughing...hahahahahahaaaaaa

[@206beastman]

She should see the pics of what that area looked like during the depression crybaby

[@uu8212]

This is what you voted for, quit complaining!

[@schoolingdiana9086]

You’re not from here. You don’t know how this works.

[@rr-yw1on]

NIMBY alert. If the asian community doesn't want the homeless people to harass more asians, the asian community in CID should welcome this shelter for the residentially challenged, and to go a step further, the CID community needs to open their house and their business for them as well.

[@williamwinston8872]

who cares?

[@valheart4399]

I care.

[@schoolingdiana9086]

I do. And I am not alone, nor am I in the minority on that opinion.

[@TexasToastMon]

I don't