No more complaining about homelessness until after you’ve read this book. University of California Press
Every Pacific Northwest hiker knows the old joke about how to escape a bear attack: Just make sure your hiking buddy is slower than you! Har har. It’s a worn-out wisecrack, but it’s a pretty accurate description of the way Seattle and other cities like it handle homelessness.
Sure, we could just spray the charging bear with mace rather than sacrifice our fellow hiker. Other hikers like us do that, and it works out just fine for them. But we hate the smell, we mistakenly believe it hurts the environment, and it costs us money.