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A homeless man in Seattle has constructed an encampment that resembles the White House to make an announcement towards town’s homeless insurance policies, in response to a report.
Jason Rantz, host of the Jason Rantz Show on Seattle’s KTTH Radio, wrote an op-ed about assembly the homeless man, named Danny, and studying what impressed him to construct a duplicate of one of many nation’s most well-known residences in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood.
Danny informed Rantz that he was helpful and beforehand labored on constructions across the metropolis, together with the Space Needle. He stated he might now not work and misplaced his residence after growing carpal tunnel syndrome in his palms.
“I type of really feel embarrassed about being down right here to some extent, but it surely’s exhausting to get out of right here for the very fact of the state of affairs I’m in,” Danny stated. “My palms are screwed up, I misplaced my car…”
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Danny informed Rantz that he constructed the duplicate White House for a number of causes, together with to point out that homeless encampments can look good. He additionally revealed that he would not place a lot hope within the providers that Seattle supplies to the homeless.
The metropolis runs a Tiny House Village system that goals to offer shelter for these experiencing homelessness and maintain them off the streets. But Danny claimed that the cash meant to assist the homeless is as a substitute going to people who are in cost.
“I feel that the individuals which are there to attempt to assist out the homeless and get individuals off the streets … that’s the place all the cash’s going as a result of it’s not going to the individuals which are homeless down right here,” Danny claimed.
Danny, who used to work along with his palms, stated that carpal tunnel syndrome prevented him from working, which triggered him to lose his residence and automotive. (@JasonRantz/KTTH Radio)
He additionally criticized town’s tiny properties system.
“And all people I do know that’s been any tiny dwelling, besides a couple of individuals, they’re all again down right here,” Danny stated. “They’ve been kicked out as a result of they didn’t sign up or out in the future or one thing silly.”
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After talking with Danny, Rantz stated that the builder of the duplicate White House “epitomizes the homeless drawback,” talking in disjointed, hard-to-follow sentences and blaming somebody or one thing else for his present state of affairs.
“He appears to at all times have an excuse, however doesn’t seem to appreciate he’s a part of the issue,” Rantz wrote within the op-ed. “He’s proven no indication that he really needs to turn into a functioning member of society once more.”
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In May, the Seattle Times reported that federal knowledge confirmed greater than 16,000 individuals have been experiencing homelessness on a given day in King County in 2024, a 23% improve in homelessness from 2022, when the info was final collected.
