People complain about housing mostly where jobs are abundant (which stokes demand for housing), and they complain about jobs in places where housing is not a problem.
A lot of the people living on the streets can’t get jobs even when they are abundant because they have mental illness or substance abuse problems that prevent them from working at all. Sure, Seattle has a minimum wage of almost $20/hour, and plenty of jobs still go unfilled, but the guy having a fent crisis naked in front of the library isn’t going to help much (for example from my personal experience).
A lot of the people living on the streets can’t get jobs even when they are abundant because they have mental illness or substance abuse problems that prevent them from working at all. Sure, Seattle has a minimum wage of almost $20/hour, and plenty of jobs still go unfilled, but the guy having a fent crisis naked in front of the library isn’t going to help much (for example from my personal experience).