RantWoman awhile ago heeded a call to deliver, unsolicited, some questions to a younger Friend by email. RantWoman assured the young Friend that she was heeding a call to deliver but did not have any specific expectations of results. RantWoman has been gratified to see seeds sprouting over time from that exchange.
Resources anyone?
With that in mind, RantWoman is heeding an inner call to deliver some contributions to discussion about homelessness.
Bill Radtke The Record several segments about homeless issues
One of RantWoman's consistent go-to journalistic sources about homelessness issues is Erica C Barnett.
Here is an article from May 2020 that covers many homelessness related issues.
May 2020 article on REACH programs
Also presently, find Erica at Publicola.com and on Twitter at @EricaCBarnet
Does anyone besides RantWoman care about bus benches and grafitti?
The Light Rail is Coming.
And finally, lest anyone forget that a new Light Rail Station is opening near UFM in SEPTEMBER 2021 (Are we ready?)a slightly edited version of an email RantWoman fed into the work of Quaker Voice:
This item overlaps with economic justice and criminal justice. I am passing it along in case anyone has time / capacity to monitor. and decide whether any alerts would be helpful.
Via Twitter from Rep. Fitzgibbons
House voted 96 to 1 to pass my bill HB 1301, allowing @SoundTransit to develop a non-judicial system to resolve fare evasion citations. When @kcmetrobus did this, they got a system that's more effective, sees less fare evasion, and resolves more citations than before. #waleg
RantWoman:
For background at some point King County Metro or someone in the county audited all the citations issued for fare evasion on Metro buses. Probably to no one's surprise, the vast majority of the
citations were issued to people living unhoused; and a very low percentage of the fines were ever collected. So Metro switched to a program of the formmerly fare enforcement staff emphasizing paths to help rather than fines of something like $194.
To me it's a no-brainer that the Senate should allow SoundTransit to do as Metro has done. I have no read on whether there might be howls of protests from the suburban afraid of light rail anyway crowd particularly places north and east of Seattle set to get new stations and service in the next few years.
FWIW also, perception of safety is one key driver of whether people who have the choice about travel method are willing to get out of their cars and on to transit.
Questions to consider
What does it mean to be a good neighbor either in UFM standards or for others?
Where might be some points of conflict besides p-p-p-arking?
What is within our Light and capacity to do?
Invitation!
Okay RantWoman, what to you would indicate that people have interacted with many topics raised here?
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING!
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Will word reach RantWoman of what themes might emerge from discussion?
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