RG> -> Why is it Seattle has a large homeless (tramp, bum, hobo, etc)
RG> -> population without the massive problems other areas seem to
RG> have. -> Yes, there's societal problems but they're over on
RG> Cathedral Hill,
RG> Whoa, you've not been watching the news.  In the past 6 months
RG> Seattle and the surrounding communities have had two widely
RG> publicized murders committed by "street  people".  Over the past 2
RG> years communities have
RG> The vandalism and damage done to private and public property is
RG> also on the rise.  Seattle in the past had a passive response to
RG> the homeless
Guess I've not been keeping up. When I was there, Seattle always had 
resources to ease the pain of poverty. Much of the time an indigent 
needed to do some sort of nominal "work" to accomplish this... but at 
least it was there.
Please keep in mind I differentiate between common "riff-raff" and 
homelessness... there is a difference.
DB
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