KVI’s Ari Hoffman is joined by our friend Gary Greenberg, who is leading a citizen activist campaign against a housing project for the homeless out in Kirkland.
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The best thing KVI listeners can do to help now is to appeal to the Kirkland City Council.
What neighbors are trying to do right now is influence what this code of conduct is going to look like in order to protect it. We’ve seen how these homeless hotels destroy the area around them and people get hurt.
This was a quote from Plymouth housing earlier this week, “no country or government in the world has figured out how to eliminate addiction, but we do firmly believe that by creating community ties, by building trust, we get closer”. So, not treatment. We need to help people overcome addiction, but we’re going to still allow them to be addicted. and live in the community there. That’s exactly what they’re going to do and that’s why these programs fail time after time after time.
