Local leaders have struggled to find solutions to Seattle’s homeless crisis for years, but as authors and researchers Gregg Colburn and Clayton Aldern point out, there’s one direction the region needs to be moving in to finally make progress.
Upzoning Seattle’s single-family neighborhoods could provide crucial ‘communal space’
Colburn and Aldern — who co-authored “Homelessness is a Housing Problem” — point to an odd discrepancy between relatively affluent cities like Seattle with high rates of homelessness and cities with more poverty but smaller homeless populations.
“Detroit has the highest poverty rate in the country, we know that poverty is a cause of homelessness, yet Detroit has one-fifth the homelessness
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