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Amazon Begins Housing Homeless In Seattle (jeffreifman.com)
reifman writes: Amazon announced that it will commit one of its buildings to housing 200 Seattle homeless people for the next year, allowing a nonprofit organization to oversee the facilities... With more than 4,505 living on the streets, Seattle's mayor recently declared a homelessness emergency... More than 45 people died on the streets in 2015, heroin related deaths in King County are at a 20-year high, and neighborhoods are up in arms about homeless drug use, crime and people living in cars.
The Seattle Times notes that Amazon's construction on the lot isn't scheduled until 2017, so they reached out to the homelessness nonprofit to temporarily offer its use, hoping to later offer the group a second site. (The nonprofit will pay the site's utility bills).
The Seattle Times notes that Amazon's construction on the lot isn't scheduled until 2017, so they reached out to the homelessness nonprofit to temporarily offer its use, hoping to later offer the group a second site. (The nonprofit will pay the site's utility bills).
my experience (volunteer) with a private business being the owner, but not operator, of a homeless shelter, opens up a "deep pocket" lawsuit probability.
To be fair to these people, I'm starting to wonder why I work when I could collect welfare instead.
Go apply for welfare, and you will find out. It is unlikely you will qualify. Neither do most homeless people. America spends far less on welfare than most people realize.
You should apply for SSDI instead. Just say your back hurts.
Not always. Money exhausted by medical bills and a disabling condition after 30ish years as a software dev.
I came very close to homeless and use no drugs and drink little alcohol. Don't generalize.
The Panama Papers puts the lie to everything you say about it being better in private hands.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.