Talk:Homelessness in Seattle

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2020 and 13 March 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Madsngo.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 22:32, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

work still needed
This article is potentially useful, for Seattle is not only one of the fastest growing cities in the US, it has among the fastest growing disparities in income and a high rate of displacement, making homelessness a major public issue in the city. This article requires a lot of care to be useful, however, and I confess I can't devote any more effort in the near term to compiling a better set of resources and figures. My first act was to delete a definition of homelessness that not only seemed superfluous, it was sourced to an article that does not now, if it ever did, have anything defining homelessness within it. Following the suggestions in the wiki "edicts," I deleted apparent redundancies and consolidated sections while also updating some figures.

I did not edit the section on Violence, which is problematic: it pertains only to a city council ordinance pertaining to violence against homeless people, and it is not even clear whether that law would cover violence perpetrated by another unhoused person. But although crime within homeless encampments is something of a problem in the city, it is not touched upon.

The list of encampments and services also needs a serious rethink. Actio (talk) 04:22, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Seattle is Dying (documentary)
Permastub with little hope of expansion on subject of the documentary itself. Actual subject is homelessness in Seattle, which is where this content belongs. Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:14, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No objections, so I proceeded with merge. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 02:27, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Numbers don't make sense
From One Night Count, the numbers in this article do not make sense. There is a chart from 2000, to 2018, which shows a 300% increase in the number of homeless, but then a paragragh after that shows different numbers, plus uncharted numbers from 2000-2009. The numbers from 2009 aren't very different from 2018, but they are vastly different than the chart. This is unusable as is! SchmuckyTheCat (talk) 13:55, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

The One Night Count superseded by the Point-In-Time Count
The One Night Count was been superseded by the Point-In-Time Count run by King County in 2016. For this reason, the references in this article are out-of-date. According to Alison, the Executive Director for the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness, the old reports from 1980 should now be hosted by the King County website. Where exactly is currently TBD. Lextrounce (talk) 22:14, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Sweeps
I think the sweeps section still needs a lot of work. I removed a lot of the uncited claims and opinions and I think cutting it in half, as it is now, is a good middle ground until more information on this topic is found. 152.44.210.5 (talk) 20:52, 25 December 2021 (UTC)