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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Seattle's Homeless Policy FIASCO Creates Food Deserts, Taxpayers Pay Twice
Description: Seattle allows rampant crime and homelessness, then acts shocked when businesses flee and residents face food deserts. After clearing downtown encampments, Mayor Bruce Harrell just shuffled the problem to residential neighborhoods like Lake City, where Fred Meyer finally said "we're done" and closed shop. Now Seattle's brilliant solution? Government-run grocery stores and "multi-pronged approaches" – everything except actually dealing with the shoplifting, drug addiction, and safety issues that drove businesses away in the first place. We dive into how the city's whack-a-mole homeless sweeps moved encampments two blocks down the street, why less than 5% of homeless accept actual housing, and ho...