Packing all the homeless into one neighborhood has been a disaster for all concerned. The city should do two things: move all the rest stops to other areas well away from the Whiteaker, downtown and the river. That would still leave the Whiteaker with a nearly unbearable burden of homeless, but at least it would fall below the current 20% of residents being homeless.

After that, the city council should halt all funding for Ruiz' Palace and use that money to build several homeless shelters in the south hills and northeast. Stop putting people in shanties. Disperse the homeless and then enforce the no camping ordinances and give the community back its parks and bike paths.

Others may disagree, but this would seem to be a better use of $30M than fancy office space for Mia, Jon and their friends.