Your understanding of the homeless is infantile and your projection of motive on indigent, disinterested people is appalling. Seattle is a substantially harsher place to be homeless than Los Angeles or San Francisco. I say that having known professionals who work with the homeless in all three communities. The homeless are also not a transient population; they aren't a roving band of locusts surfing the internet to find the best incentives. They generally live where they failed out. Seattle has an extensive network of options available to the homeless that, wait for it, includes subsidized housing. I HAVE PERSONALLY DESIGNED THESE UNITS in and around Greenlake and the Space Needle. That they don't advertise should not surprise you, considering your shamefully reactionary attitude. "Deport them to Yakima." Fuck off.
Tell me again why it makes sense to house the homeless in neighborhoods there an average working American cannot afford to live? Young professionals that make 100k+ a year cannot afford to live in green-lake but its a great place for a recovering addict thats down on his or her luck. That makes no sense. The rest of us have to move when we cant afford to live somewhere because we got priced out, why do the homeless have the right to stay? EDIT: P.S The right to peacefully assemble does not extend into a right to squat on public property and camp out. If it did occupy would still be camped out in downtown Seattle.
Because the right to freely and peaceably assemble has fuckall to do with the right to own property in Greenlake? There's nothing stopping you from throwing a sleeping bag under an overpass other than you have better options. They don't. But right. DEPORT THE POOR. This is me ignoring you.