Microsoft Co-founder Pledges $30 Million To House Seattle's Homeless (cnn.com)

Paul Allen, a founder of Microsoft has pledged $30 million to house Seattle's homeless. From a report: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said Wednesday the city was partnering with Paul G. Allen's family foundation to build a facility to house homeless families with children. Allen's foundation will provide $30 million toward the development of the facility, while the city of Seattle has pledged $5 million for its maintenance and operation. It will be owned and operated by Mercy Housing Northwest, a nonprofit housing organization. Seattle is in King County, which has 1,684 families that are homeless, according to the mayor's announcement. More than 3,000 homeless children were enrolled in Seattle's public schools during the 2015-2016 year, it said.

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There's a fine line between helping and enabling

[Urinal Pube]

It will be interesting to see if the number of homeless in the city increases or decreases because of this.

Re:What's the immigration status of these families

[drinkypoo]

The risk of accidentally helping some homeless children that also don't have the right papers is an especially dumb reason to not help homeless children.

You misspelled "evil" as "dumb" there. Because we all know what this is really about: finding excuses not to help anyone else under any circumstances which are avoidable. This attitude was ingrained during the great depression, in which people mostly told everyone else to fuck off while they were trying to take care of their own shit, and it was hammer home during the baby boom, when everyone felt like they were the shit and didn't need help from anyone in spite of the fact that American prosperity post-WWII is the result of the rest of the world getting the shit bombed out of it.

Pay your fucking taxes instead

[Opportunist]

If the rich didn't get more ways to weasel out of paying their due, we wouldn't need the pittance they pay as charity. We'd have the money to provide for our people ourselves.

Fuck you Paul Allen. The only reason you could create that "charity" is because you evaded paying what you owe.

Re:Pay your fucking taxes instead

[TheRaven64]

And that's exactly the attitude that leads to this situation: the belief among a large subset of the population that they will eventually get rich and benefit from all of the loopholes that aid the rich. The overwhelming majority of the richest people in the world were born rich. They didn't come from being lower middle class and work hard to earn their money.

Re:Pay your fucking taxes instead

[TheRaven64]

So you'd rather play a game that you know is rigged against you than try to change the rules, while simultaneously complaining that people who want to change the rules are self destructive? No wonder we elect the leaders we do...

Re:What's the immigration status of these families

[geek]

llegal immigrants are just regular people, so you may know some of them without realizing.

NO, illegal immigrants are people who have NO LEGAL RIGHT to be in the country.

Yes, but I believe most people think "bad hombres", not "my neighbors".
Case in point woman who voted for Trump thinking only illegal immigrants with criminal records will be deported.

Maybe you think everyone should go, but many people assume a more nuanced definition will apply.

If they came here illegally then they by definition have a criminal record. This isn't fucking rocket surgery