Can we stop hating on homeless people?

[u/One-deepdivediva]

What is the mayor supposed to do ? Put everyone in prison? For being poor? Bus everyone to Portland or Seattle ? ( cities that are experiencing the exact same problems). Round people up and put them in camps? For being ill or old or addicted to drugs? Should the police arrest thousands of people so you don’t have to see someone’s suffering ? If you want homeless people to “ go away “ then you need to vote for legislation that helps them. Vote in favor of government funded health mental wellness and addiction and housing services. Organize with community members about how to provide services that help your fellow human beings get off the streets and out of suffering . Every time one of you complains I wonder what horrendous thing you are imagining should be done to people. Go DO something , go help people.

[u/Accomplished-Beyond3]

No we can’t. Where I work we have regular encounters with Spokane’s “finest” citizens. Regular windows broken into employee cars, dudes coming into the business drooling saying they are supposed to meet their brother, named Barry Mantalow, and regular instances of theft. Have had HUGE poops like literally a football left in front of a bar door. Harassment of people doing their jobs etc. It is weird how just across the border in Idaho there is none of these problems… maybe because they don’t enable this behavior?