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Category Archives: Nickelsville
Charade: Homeless camps and the abuse of public process
September 8, 2018 ~ The biggest gripe a citizen can have is that their government doesn’t listen to them, and that gripe has never been more on-point than when it comes to transients and drug addicts camping in Seattle parks … Continue reading
Puff Piece
April 29, 2017 In my years of trying to bring the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) to justice, I have been repeatedly frustrated by their slick public relations operation. Here’s an organization that engages in a number of deceptive or dishonest … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Tent City
Tagged Licton Springs, LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute, Nesbit, Sharon Lee, Wall Street Journal
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Encampment Complaints: A suspicious pattern
March 23, 2017 The document in the link below was produced by Seattle’s Customer Service Bureau (CSB) in response to a public disclosure request from Safe Seattle. The document shows how many citizen complaints the City got in a six-week … Continue reading
Risky Business: Is Seattle’s Encampment Bill un-Constitutional?
October 7, 2016 A hot mess gets hotter In each of the past several years, ever greater numbers of homeless people have been camping out on publicly owned land in Seattle. Conditions around the encampment areas have steadily deteriorated, and … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Squatters, Tent City
Tagged 14th Amendment, ACLU, due process, encampments ordinance, equal protection, legal jeapordy, Scott Morrow, squatters
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Anatomy of a Swindle: How a Rogue Non-profit Captured the Emerald City
September 13, 2016 The Set-up For four years I’ve been investigating a publicly supported non-profit homeless group in Seattle called SHARE. SHARE runs 14 indoor shelters around Seattle, for which it annually gets several hundred thousand dollars from Seattle’s Human … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, General, Homelessness, Media, Nickelsville, SHARE, Tent City
Tagged corruption, David G. Jones, Efren Agmata, HSD, LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute, Mayor Ed Murray, Peggy Hotes, Pete Holmes, Scott Morrow, Seattle City Auditor, Seattle City Council, Seattle Human Services Department, SHARE, Sharon Lee
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“Dear Scott . . .” Will SHARE ever fire Boss Morrow? Can they?
June 4, 2016 Today I got a nice surprise in my mailbox. It’s a letter from someone who claims to represent some two dozen Scott Morrow critics: disaffected homeless campers, SHARE insiders, volunteers. The letter is being circulated ahead of … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, SHARE
Tagged democracy, direct action, Power Lunch, Scott Morrow, SHARE
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Shocked!
May 21, 2106 The Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE), claims to have fired their “accountant,” Steven A. Isaacson, after TBQ broke a story on Isaacson’s lack of credentials ten days ago. (See The Accountant Who Wasn’t There). On May … Continue reading
The Accountant Who Wasn’t There
May 11, 2016 Back Story: Gimme Shelter The Seattle House and Resource Effort (SHARE) gets around a million dollars in government grants and in-kind donations each year. They ostensibly use this money to shelter homeless people, which they do through a … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics, SHARE
Tagged accounting, fraud, homelessness, Scott Morrow, Seattle HSD, Seattle Human Services, SHARE, Steven A. Isaacson, tent camps, white collar crime
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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 Case of the Missing Homeless Camp
April 13, 2016 Do you see a homeless camp in this picture? –Yeah. Neither do I. So why was the landowner granted a two-year “transitional housing” property tax exemption on this pricey patch of real estate near downtown Seattle? Good question. … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics, SHARE
Tagged Chris Koh, Coho Real Estate, corruption, fraud, homelessness, LIHI, property tax, Scott Morrow, SHARE, Sharon Lee
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It takes a trash-heap to make a Village
March 25, 2016 A homeless man rummages through trash in an alley behind Seattle’s newest “sanctioned” homeless camp, Othello Village. The camp is run jointly by Seattle’s Human Services Department and the Low Income Housing Institute, a local non-profit group that oversees two … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Photos (Stuff), SHARE
Tagged homeless camps, LIHI. Low Income Housing Institute, Othello Village, public health, rats
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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
Othello Village: How a homeless camp came to one Seattle neighborhood
March 7, 2016 Seattle officials recently hosted two community meetings in the city’s Othello neighborhood to discuss their plans for citing e a homeless encampment in neighborhood. The camp has been dubbed “Othello Village” and will be located in 7500 block … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, SHARE
Tagged bruce harrell, city planning, Holly House, homeless camps, homeless families, LIHI, Low Income Housing Institute, neighborhood planning, Othello Village, Scott Morrow, Seattle Othello neighborhood, SHARE/WHEEL, Sharon Lee, urban blight, urban renewal
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Othello Village
February 29, 2016 Seattle’s newest “sanctioned” homeless encampment is about to open. This photo came to me through a neighborhood resident who said: “They are already moving in, right around the corner. The entire community just found out about it … Continue reading
Posted in Homelessness, Nickelsville, SHARE
Tagged encampments, Othello Village, Scott Morrow, SHARE, tiny houses
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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
More RV Gypsies
This scene is about a mile from my house as the crow flies.* Looks like a scene right outta Sunset Magazine, doesn’t it? How do you like the mountain of trash that’s piling up on the side? That’s a nice … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville
Tagged Ed Murray, Freeattle, gypsies, homeless policy, homelessness, RV Campers, urban blight
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RV Gypsies
A strange new thing is happening in Seattle. All over the city, in every kind of neighborhood, RVs are turning up on the streets – or just off them – and staying there. For months or years at a time. In … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics, Squatters
Tagged Freeattle, hoarders, homelessness, RVs, Sally Bagshaw, tent cities
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Reducing Homelessness: Now you’re talking
Seattle Times (Around the Northwest) Friday, December 11, 2015 This story indicates a move in the right direction for Seattle and other large West Coast cities. Hopefully, demographics on homeless people who wind up in these cities now be collected to … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville
Tagged Ed Murray, homeless policy, homelessness, Seattle Mayor
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The Friends of Kshama Sawant: Progressive politics and influence at City Hall
November 13, 2015 ~ Seattle A “People’s Budget Town Hall” Late last month, one week ahead of city council elections, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant hosted her second “People’s Budget Town Hall” event at City Hall. Cleverly disguised as a public … Continue reading
Posted in General, Homelessness, Nickelsville, Politics, SHARE
Tagged affordable housing, bruce harrell, Jarvis Capucion, Kshama Sawant, LIHI, Lisa Herbold, Low Income Housing Institute, progressive politics, Scott Morrow, Seattle City Council, Sharon Lee, socialism, Socialist Alternative
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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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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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