Re: “Seattle is in desperate need of a blueprint for safe, affordable housing” [July 14, Opinion]:
Alex Fryer’s column factors out the issues a personal improvement firm has had attempting to handle a low-income housing challenge. It highlights that the housing challenge didn’t have “behavioral well being helps to handle habit and different crises” (psychological well being circumstances). It additionally notes “insufficient assist” for these with greater wants. The decision to motion states “this dynamic should change.”
The column reads like a homelessness déjà vu persevering with this often-heard Seattle grievance. The blueprint wanted is already obtainable. There are very succesful nonprofit housing and behavioral well being organizations on this county working housing applications below the identical struggles that keep them with care, respect and dignity.
It’s time for native authorities and improvement firms to accomplice with nonprofits with years of expertise coping with these points correctly.
Peter Moote, Seattle