Homelessness: Solutions will be costly, inconvenient

Re: “Seattle still isn’t dying,” (TNT, 3/31).

Matt Driscoll’s column explains why we continue to read the News Tribune. His piece on KOMO TV’s “Is Seattle Dying?” pointed out that the problems faced by Seattle are universal.

Every community in America is faced with the results of individual addiction, homelessness, the imperfect race run by inflation and the diminishing spread of income from the bottom up, unintended (and intended) racism, and a selfish disregard for humanity in general.

As for the problems cited in KOMO’s program, no one in or out of government has a clear idea how to find a concrete, thrifty solution. How much may it cost? How long it will take to discover that a solution can be found?

Several recent letter writers have reacted as if they want these questions answered yesterday, at no additional cost, and without being inconvenienced. Good luck with that.

It will cost a lot; it will take time; we will all be terribly inconvenienced. But it might make this a better world.

Seattle may be dying, but we are all on the same 737 MAX.