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ismnotwasm

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10. Jesus.
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 03:46 PM
Jun 2015
The Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness in King County provides a blueprint for how the region will work together to confront the issues that cause homelessness, and create housing and supportive services needed to end homelessness. The City of Seattle is a leader and one of three major funders of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County and the Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness, along with King County and United Way of King County.

The Ten-Year Plan emerged as an idea in 2004, when a broad-based coalition of more than 30 leaders representing United Way of King County, businesses, faith-based communities, housing and human services organizations, homeless people and governments, came together to confront this serious issue. The plan, completed in the spring of 2005, seeks to end homelessness, not just help people live in homelessness. In addition to the more than 18 municipalities who have endorsed the Ten-Year Plan, more than 140 organizations and churches operate housing and service programs aligned with the strategies of the Ten-Year Plan, or have otherwise endorsed the plan.

http://www.seattle.gov/humanservices/emergencyservices/tenyearplan.htm

The city of Seattle spends about $40 million to help prevent homelessness, and in 2006 Seattle has since been adding $6 million more in general funding resources. The Seattle city has helped pay for 215 housing units in Seattle. 288 are currently under construction and planned to open by 2011.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Seattle


You want to talk about homelessness in GBLTQ youth?

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I have to wonder if 66,000 could have been spent better elsewhere. Travis_0004 Jun 2015 #1
Nope ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #2
It's actually 56K more than white crosswalks and it was paid for out of pnwmom Jun 2015 #9
Thank you ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #12
Thank YOU! pnwmom Jun 2015 #18
I'll take that gig, 11K per intersection.... snooper2 Jun 2015 #32
SF's Ed Lee must be kicking himself KamaAina Jun 2015 #3
Heh! ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #5
I think we have something like this in Castro Prism Jun 2015 #21
Cool! Yup, that looks very rainbow-ish to me, too! pnwmom Jun 2015 #23
pictures Liberal_in_LA Jun 2015 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2015 #6
It's more that "painting a few sidewalks" ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #7
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2015 #8
Jesus. ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #10
As a Seattle homeless advocate I know Hon ... mntleo2 Jun 2015 #19
I know ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #20
Or rather than someone else telling them that, you could invite them into your house and serve them LanternWaste Jun 2015 #14
This money came from developers' fees and couldn't be shifted to feeding the hungry. n/t pnwmom Jun 2015 #15
Why don't you pass your opinions on to the LGBT people in the neighborhood who have, pnwmom Jun 2015 #16
They are crosswalks and the true cost was the difference between these pnwmom Jun 2015 #13
K&R. NCTraveler Jun 2015 #11
Along with the brass dance steps in the sidewalks... RGinNJ Jun 2015 #17
I would love to have something like these where I live in Iowa 47of74 Jun 2015 #22
While I am in favor of supporting Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #24
In Seattle we have prominent crosswalks everywhere and unlike in some cities, pnwmom Jun 2015 #25
We are quirky that way ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #26
Yup! I remember being so amazed, a long time ago, to see how polite most of the drivers are, pnwmom Jun 2015 #28
The colors painted on the street Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #27
They DO resemble the crosswalks we have HERE, except most of ours are painted in white stripes pnwmom Jun 2015 #29
Seattle is concerned with symbolism Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #31
Yeah, so? pnwmom Jun 2015 #33
I don't know what the laws are in Seattle, I've never had the need to check them. Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #35
What does that have to do with Rainbow crosswalks anyway? ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #36
"What does that have to do with Rainbow crosswalks anyway?" Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #40
The symbolism of a Lenin Statue in the district of Fremont ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #42
I don't care where the statue is. Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #44
No it isn't ismnotwasm Jun 2015 #56
Thank you for proving that the term "Socialist" will scare away even many Democratic voters. pnwmom Jun 2015 #37
I have proven nothing, at least not intentionally, Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #39
Here's something else you don't understand about Seattle. pnwmom Jun 2015 #41
I did some reading about that statue. Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #43
Yes, people have decided to dress it up. As John Lennon (the Beatle), as a clown, and in drag. (Not all at once.) pnwmom Jun 2015 #45
Yes, I don't see the humor Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #46
How is dressing him as a Beatle, a clown, and in drag "glorifying" him? I'm sure that wasn't the pnwmom Jun 2015 #47
Because it's there. Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #49
We have a statue of a cow, too. Are we glorifying the cow? And not far from pnwmom Jun 2015 #50
This is in fact, one such statue cemaphonic Jun 2015 #54
It's a self-aware joke mostly cemaphonic Jun 2015 #53
This is my last post on the topic. Snobblevitch Jun 2015 #57
These are busy high-traffic streets with stoplights. cemaphonic Jun 2015 #30
I think it's beautiful. Zorra Jun 2015 #38
KnR! How uplifting Hekate Jun 2015 #34
Happy Seattle Pride! It's an actual celebration here. Those crosswalks are really cool. nolabear Jun 2015 #48
Hmm, not what I was expecting. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #51
This is what an LGBT group in the "Emerald City" planned. pnwmom Jun 2015 #52
I miss living on Capitol Hill at times cemaphonic Jun 2015 #55
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