@Alex58775877 @TeresaCMosqueda@KCPubHealth@Nickelsville2@SeattleCouncil You want to talk about personal responsibility? How about the fact that Amazon paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2018? What about the starvation wages they pay their workers? In this country we have socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.
@Alex58775877 @TeresaCMosqueda@KCPubHealth@Nickelsville2@SeattleCouncil My point is pretty clear: all shelters should be funded. Amazon is partially responsible for the soaring rent prices and no affordable housing. People struggling with addiction should be provided with the help that they need—don’t demonize the most powerless people in society.
@amyhagopian@CMTMosqueda Thanks for your support, Amy! I live at @Nickelsville2 Northlake and am directly impacted by this omission in the budget package. I hear a lot of talk about protecting essential workers, but I'm an essential worker and I've been left to fend for myself. Right, @SeattleCouncil?
@CMTMosqueda I couldn't agree more. That's why it is so important that @SeattleCouncil approves the $800,000 to support grassroots villages like @Nickelsville2. Did ya'll forget about us or are our lives just not as valuable? Please explain, I'd love to hear your reasoning for leaving us out.
@CMTMosqueda @HotesPeggy This just isn't the truth. What about the self-managed encampments that didn't make it into the package? We requested $800,000 to help grassroots villages like @Nickelsville2 Northlake. How can you deny us the help we need, and then lie about it?
@CMTMosqueda What about my home, @Nickelsville2 Northlake? Does our health not matter? Because self-managed villages didn't make it into the package. Do you suggest I move back into my car during a pandemic?
@CMTMosqueda There was nothing for Northlake or Nickelsville CD. All the money went to LIHI again. There is no funding in the budget for self-managed THVs.
@CMTMosqueda Actually the $800,000 designated to 5 Self Managed Community Villages sheltering 150 people was stripped out of the balancing package. Several 40 person top down corporate villages costing 1.4 million apiece are all that remains.
@CMTMosqueda What about my home, @Nickelsville2 Northlake? Does our health not matter? Because self-managed villages didn't make it into the package. Do you suggest I move back into my car during a pandemic?
@CMTMosqueda @HotesPeggy This just isn't the truth. What about the self-managed encampments that didn't make it into the package? We requested $800,000 to help grassroots villages like @Nickelsville2 Northlake. How can you deny us the help we need, and then lie about it?
@fatherqueerest If she was clearly on substances and was acting “erratic” then why wasn’t she in an ambulance with medics? Why was she handcuffed and put into a patrol car? Because addiction is looked at as a criminal issue. She wasn’t treated like a human being. This is disgraceful.