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well, without people working downtown, it will be abandoned to drug addicts in a spiral of insufficient public safety resources and declining revenue. so i don’t blame him.


At least then you might get a mayor that works for the people living downtown than whatever suburbanites swarm it on work days.


This comment cracked me up. I do live in downtown Seattle.


Or maybe all of the ridiculous pressure from sky high salaries and no affordable housing led to the homeless population...


There's lots of "affordable housing" aka Byzantine subsidy schemes here in Seattle. What there isn't is consistent enforcement against encampments, littering, and shoplifting




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