Remember how Gavin Newsom miraculously cleaned up San Francisco, including removing the homeless when Chicom leader Xi visited? Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson has a similar strategy: she’s building a bunch of “tiny houses” for the homeless to get them out of sight in time for the World Cup matches. She touted around 500 but is far short of that goal.

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They come in various configurations but are about 70 square feet and feature a tiny bed, a tiny desk, and a tiny space to hang clothing. There are no toilets or showers, no appliances or running water, and from photographs, no heat or air conditioning. When the homeless need to use the bathroom or anything else, that’s a matter of sharing and trekking over what appear to be unpaved lots—gravel or dirt—to get to communal facilities.

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Yes, what could possibly go wrong?  

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The "Bayside Enhanced Shelter," located near Armory Way and 15th Avenue West, focuses on individuals facing chronic homelessness, substance-use disorders, and mental illness. The site is designed to serve as a transitional stepping stone toward permanent housing.

The new village features 75 individual units, each measuring approximately 70 square feet. To aid residents in their transition, the facility offers round-the-clock resources.

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An 8’ X 12’ bedroom is 96 square feet. The Stranger.com has more:

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson unveiled a new 75-unit tiny house shelter in Interbay over the weekend. It’s the first opening in the mayor’s ambitious program to open 4,000 shelter beds by the end of her term. But the new shelter still fell well short of her first goal: building 500 new units before the World Cup comes to Seattle.

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Bayside Shelter cost $3.95 million in city funds and is made up of rows of 70-square-foot pre-fabricated tiny homes on a triangular plot bordering a Whole Foods and self-storage facilities on 15th Avenue West. The site has easy access to the D and 32 bus lines, laundry facilities, shared showers and toilets, a community room with a kitchen, and 24-hour staffing.

Wilson admitted things aren’t going all that well, but has tried to put lipstick on the pig:

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At about $17,000 a unit, Pallet shelters used at Bayside are about triple the cost of wooden stick-framed shelters used by other tiny house villages such as those managed by LIHI. 

King explained that there were a number of factors contributing to this difference in prices, including the material costs of building with fiberglass panels instead of wood, the inclusion of mini split air conditioners and the use of paid labor instead of volunteers. She also claimed that Pallet shelters are able to last for 20 years. All the units come fully furnished and will provide amenities such as multiple double-paned windows, a keypad door lock, and wifi.

These units are supposed to be transitional, enabling the insane, addicted, violent, felonious homeless to move into larger and more stable housing. Oh, the destruction of good, but dimwitted, intentions. Sure, these people need shelter, but many, perhaps most, don’t want shelter. They will take advantage of it, though:

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These are not, for the most part, civilized people down on their luck who need only a little help to once again live civilized, productive lives. As landlords know, many renters don’t treat property they don’t own with respect, and most of them aren’t insane addicts. There’s going to be no pride of ownership, and these “tiny houses” will be stripped and destroyed in short order. 

When pressed, some of the people involved in these projects have admitted there will be no real effort to keep drugs out, so every problem that accompanies them will be present. Homeless with elimination urges aren’t going to walk to communal bathrooms. They probably won’t even bother going outside. They’re going to be beating and killing each other and overdosing. 

They’ll quickly render each tiny house uninhabitable. Many won’t even bother to sleep inside. They’ll grab blankets and pillows and head back to their favorite spots on the streets unless stopped, which they might be while tourists are in town for soccer, but not thereafter. Paranoid, hostile, diseased, antisocial, violently deranged people aren’t going to become instantly social and politely altruistic because they’re put in huts smaller than some bathrooms, arrayed like sardines in cans. Whether the huts are made of plywood, fiberglass, or cardboard isn’t the issue or a solution to anything.

What they need are residential care mental institutions where they can be legally committed, dried out, and perhaps, at least somewhat cured. But that’s not going to happen. That would invalidate Democrat narratives about “root causes,” which are mainly the evil of Republicans. And Trump. Don’t forget Trump.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.