Category Archives: Tent City

Puff Piece

Posted on April 29, 2017 by DBP

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 →

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Encampment Complaints: A suspicious pattern

Posted on March 23, 2017 by DBP

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 →

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Tent Cities: Not a way out but a way to HANG out

Posted on February 8, 2017 by DBP

February 8, 2017 Except for the misleading headline, this article from Pacific Standard Magazine is a more or less honest view of a SHARE-run tent city. Based on my own experiences, I can say that the interview subjects are a … Continue reading →

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Homeless Policy Questions for the WA Gubernatorial Candidates

Posted on November 3, 2016 by DBP

November 3, 2016 Below is a list of ten questions that I and my friend Harley Lever of  Safe Seattle devised for Washington gubernatorial race candidates Bill Bryant and Jay Inslee. The document format is QUESTION followed by ANSWER from … Continue reading →

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If you see something, trash something.

Posted on October 10, 2016 by DBP

October 10, 2016 IRONY ALERT! This ad on a Seattle bus tells people to call in if they see trash dumped on the street or sidewalk. I’ve called the number myself, many times; however, the trash I called in about wasn’t taken … Continue reading →

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Risky Business: Is Seattle’s Encampment Bill un-Constitutional?

Posted on October 7, 2016 by DBP

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 →

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Ask the Experts

Posted on September 24, 2016 by DBP

September 24, 2016 Seattle’s Task Force on Homeless Encampment Clean-up had one of its weekly meeings at City Hall Wednesday. I attended at the invitation of a friend who’s on the task force. It was not encouraging. But it was … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a Swindle: How a Rogue Non-profit Captured the Emerald City

Posted on September 13, 2016 by DBP

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 →

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Tell the whole story please, Mr. B

Posted on September 5, 2016 by DBP

September 5, 2016 On August 24, the Seattle Times ran a piece by columnist Daniel Beekman about the struggle between Mayor Murray and the city council over homeless folks collecting in hot spots around the city. In this post, I look at one … Continue reading →

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Jungle Boogie, continued (and continued?)

Posted on June 29, 2016 by DBP

June 29, 2016 Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said today that there might not be enough people left in the Jungle to bother with kicking them out. Which is an understandable (if not exactly courageous) stance, given the amount of crap he’s … Continue reading →

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No Strings Attached

Posted on June 18, 2016 by DBP

June 18, 2016 A recent Facebook post from Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is at once a study in courage and a window onto the political nightmare that is homeless policy in Seattle. Murray is currently getting skewered by the church-lady left … Continue reading →

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Nathan Nothing

Posted on May 25, 2016 by DBP

May 25, 2016 King County has finally taken steps to defund the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) for failing to show that they can move homeless people out of tents and shelters and into permanent housing. SHARE has been protesting … Continue reading →

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Homeless Camps and Warrant Checks: Who’s minding the store?

Posted on May 16, 2016 by DBP

May 16, 2016 Like hundreds of cities around the country, Sammamish, Washington has developed special regulations for organized homeless camps. And just like other cities, Sammamish has rules saying that if you run a homeless camp, you have to do “background … Continue reading →

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