THE VIDEO SHELF · seattle homelessness
The Fight for the Soul of Seattle | A KOMO News Documentary
A KOMO News documentary about Seattle's homelessness, addiction and street crime. It examines the City Council's policies, shows conditions on the streets and the impact on local businesses, and explores possible solutions.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters link it as an overview of Seattle's deterioration when discussing homelessness and crime in West Coast cities.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- KOMO News
- Topic
- seattle homelessness
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The same thing has happened in Portland and Seattle, both cities with increasing amounts of property crime, increasing amounts of homeless campers taking up public spaces, increasing amounts of harassment from vagrants, widespread open drug-abuse, increasing amounts of blight as pristine greenbelts are trashed, and …
throwawaysea on Hacker News · 2021-07
In 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: pollI don't have any experience with the housing issue in California, but got involved a while back trying to find pragmatic solutions in Seattle. The situation is a mess and there is an entire "homeless industrial complex" complicating matters here, rife with fraud, misspending and …
j8hn on Hacker News · 2021-08
In I believe California is the dumping ground for America's homeless problem
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