ACLU: ‘Compassion Seattle’ homelessness proposal ‘is neither compassionate nor effective’

A homeless camp in Seattle. (KIRO 7)

A newly-proposed Seattle charter amendment could have wide-ranging impacts on the city’s homelessness response efforts should it get on the ballot and be approved by voters this November. But as its supporters have poured money and resources into its potential passage, opposition has begun to take shape.

Alliance hopes to force Seattle to take action on homelessness

That opposition includes ACLU Washington, which put out a release Tuesday claiming that the charter amendment would “enshrine Seattle’s current ineffective and harmful practices of sweeping unhoused residents and their homes from public places, while doing nothing to meaningfully

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