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Tag Archives: Nickelsville
Derelicts: How a huge Seattle non-profit left a tiny homeless camp to rot
May 5, 2016 Back Story If you follow this blog, you’ll already know a lot of the Nickelsville Dearborn story. That’s the camp at 1010 South Dearborn Street near downtown Seattle that sheltered between 35 and 50 homeless people from the … Continue reading
The Not-So-Good Shepherd
RCW 36.01.290 “Authorizing religious organizations to host temporary encampments for homeless persons on property owned or controlled by a religious organization” –This statute was enacted by the Washington State Legislature in 2010. It grants churches the right to set up temporary … Continue reading
The End of Camp Dearborn
March 11, 2016 Today Seattle police moved to evict the small group of homeless campers who continued to occupy the Dearborn Street site formerly known as Nickelsville. This move was taken in response to a request from Chris Koh, who owned the … Continue reading
Kshama Sawant and Occupy Camp Dearborn
February 26, 2016 Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant won’t respond to my complaints about the treatment of people in homeless camps. She won’t meet with me to discuss creating a streamlined and independent grievance process to protect homeless people living in … Continue reading
Lisa Bright and Dark
Lisa Herbold is the presumptive new Seattle councilmember for my district. Her campaign platform is that she works for the little people (just like Kshama Sawant) and that she’s not for sale to corporations. She might not be for sale, … Continue reading
Whitewash-Dot-Com: How the Internet sanitizes SHARE
Readers of this blog will recall that I devote some of my time to discussing how journalists are manipulated – sometimes with their own connivance – by non-profit organizations and others who stand to make a buck from good publicity. … Continue reading
Posted in Homelessness, Media, Nickelsville
Tagged Cracked, Cracked.com, Dan Beekman, David Preston, Dearborn, frank chopp, Nickelsville, Robert Evans, Scott Morrow, Sharon Lee
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Homeless Camps: Do they get people off the street?
Do homeless camps really get people off the street? Or do they merely concentrate them in one place? One thing is for certain: The camps do attract homeless people. And not all of those people are actually in the camp. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness
Tagged chronic, crime, Dearborn, homeless, LIHI, litter, Low Income Housing Institute, Nickelsville, poverty, Scott Morrow, street drunks, traffic safety
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Getting High With A Little Help From His Friends: The Scott Morrow Story
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, the name Scott Morrow will be a familiar one. If you’re not a reader, Morrow is the Seattle man who founded and controls two Seattle-area homeless shelter organizations. His Rotund Eminence can regularly … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics
Tagged 1st Amendment, frank chopp, homelessness, LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Michael Reichert, Nick Licata, Nickelsville, religious freedom, Reverend Scott Olsen, Scott Morrow, Seattle Housing and Resource Effort, SHARE, Sharon Lee
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The Ecology of Failure
So one of my hot tippers calls me today and tells me I gotta get down to the bottom of Highland Park Hill, where the state DOT is cutting brush and clearing out some homeless people. So I rush down … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness
Tagged bag and tag, homelessness, long-term homelessness, Nickelsville, Nickelsville Highland Park, squatters, sweep, tent cities
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ppl (1.23.14)
This lady’s been chillin’ at the intersection of Highland Park Way SW and West Marginal Way SW in Seattle: It’s right where Nickelsville used to be. A world-class destination for panhandlers: Would you like to know what her sign says? –Of … Continue reading
The Village Quixotic (or: How to avoid headaches by thinking with your tear ducts)
Some astute TBQ readers have been linking me stuff about Olympia’s new Nickelsville knock-off, a joint called “Quixote Village.” Here’s an extract from the 12/31/13 edition of the Olympian newspaper: The residents of Camp Quixote are no longer vagabonds. They … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, General, Politics
Tagged Daily Olympian, editorial bias, fraud, homeless, inc., Jill Severn, media bias, monica spain, Nickelsville, Quixote Village, SHARE
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$64,000 (and counting) To Keep Out Nickelsville Refugees!
In earlier posts, I told you how the City of Seattle has had to shell out for a series of post-Nickelsville clean-up operations at Myers Way South, a mile up the road from where the original Nickelsville camp was, before … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Photos (Stuff)
Tagged All-City Fence, Nickelsville, Nickelsville clean-up, Scott Morrow
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The Ghettoization of the Soul
Here’s another Nickelsville hype piece from our friends at Real Change News. The story is designed to make you believe that Nickelsville is the last place of refuge for families with children: Nickelsville Elementary
Posted in Essays, General
Tagged kids at Nickelsville, Nickelsville, Real Change News, Scott Morrow
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ppl (12.18.13)
ppl is an ongoing series of posts about the post-Nickelsville clean-up. Nickelsville is an illegal squatters camp –now three separate camps – that was evicted from the Highland Park neighborhood of West Seattle in early September, 2013. See the previous entry … Continue reading
Posted in General, Photos (People), Photos (Stuff)
Tagged Highland Park Washington, Myers Way South, Nickelsville, Scott Morrow
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Nickelsville: Finding a solution
I offer this recent guest editorial from the Seattle Times for your edification. The author, one Derek Low, is a student* in the MSW (Master of Social Work) and MPH (Master of Public Health) programs at the University of Washington: … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, General
Tagged Nickelsville, Peggy Hotes, pimps of poverty, Scott Morrow, SHARE
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ppl (12.3.13)
(“ppl” is an ongoing series of posts about the post-Nickelsville clean-up. Nickelsville is an illegal squatters camp –now three separate camps – that was evicted from the Highland Park neighborhood of West Seattle in early September, 2013. See previous entries … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged All-City Fence, corruption, Mike McGinn, Nickelsville, Scott Morrow
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KPLU: Time to start paying your interns
Update! Retraction! (sort of) 11/12/14: Thanks in part to you, my diligent readers, Ms. Erin Hennessey, News Director at KPLU, got back to me on KPLU’s Skyway Nickelsville piece (see below). She also had a couple of clarifications for me: … Continue reading
Nickelsville: D-Day + 1
Here are more post-Nickelsville photos sent in by TBQ readers. These were taken by different people who visited the camp on September 2, two days after all the structures were supposed to have been removed and the whole site was … Continue reading
Homelessness: The Rules
March 25, 2013 Below is a list of rules and expectations given to homeless people when they arrive at the Nickelsville homeless encampment in Seattle, Washington. Upon entering the camp for the first time, “Nickelodeons” are asked to read and sign … Continue reading
