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Peacemaking and Community

SWBTATTReg

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4. Wow...Seattle even...

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Original post)

Tue Jan 16, 2018, 03:25 PM

Jan 2018

I love Seattle...my sister and husband live there...unfortunately (or fortunately) the larger cities are able to provide services to the homeless and a lot of suburbs have a not in my backyard policy...there was a big outcry in St. Louis City when this forced deportation to St. Louis City happened...they claimed that it was due to the city having the resources to handle the homeless better than their localities, but they could have went about differently...

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Any news of suburbs dumping homeless into large city limits? [View all] SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 OP

Please fix your title maxsolomon Jan 2018 #1

thanks for catching...I think anything could be looked at via internet but ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 #2

I work in the middle of one of America's most extreme Homeless Crises - Downtown Seattle maxsolomon Jan 2018 #3

Wow...Seattle even... SWBTATTReg Jan 2018 #4