In more than 15,000 hours of boots on the ground field work in camps, parks, under bridges, greenbelts and other shared spaces where unsanctioned dwelling occurs have never met a person who said they were there because of high rent. If we connect a person to family and “drive them out of town” this is not “hiding homeless by making them less visible” as quoted on @komonews with @ChrisDaniels_TV by homeless policy expert Sara Rankin. Connection back to family IS housing and often is an open arms doorway when people come home clean and sober. On Christmas Day I handed out jackets in a hot spot in Belltown and about 30 people approached my truck. Only one person was actually homeless according to her friends and should get the most of what I had. It’s debatable who and how we define homeless. @SeattleULaw I welcome a conversation to share our empirical data.