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Taking Care of (Homeless) Business
Campaign finance laws and the Homeless Industrial Complex January 12, 2017 Seattle perceives itself as a national leader in the effort to get money out of politics. Initiative 122, approved by voters in 2015, tried to attack the problem in … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, General, Homelessness, Squatters
Tagged All City Fence, corruption, Fred Podesta, homeless camps, Homeless Industrial Complex, Pay to Play, Seattle, Sharon Lee
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Ask the Experts
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
Jungle Boogie, continued (and continued?)
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
Posted in General, Homelessness, Politics, Tent City
Tagged Dorothea Lange, drug gangs, DTO, Ed Murray, gangs, homeless camps, John Steinbeck, migrant camps, public safety, the jungle
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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 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
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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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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