RV encampment in Seattle's SODO district cleared

City public utility crews alongside Seattle police worked to clear an RV encampment in SODO.
It's a move that critics often say displaces a vulnerable population without addressing the root problem. Though for Austin Coil, Thursday’s move represents a new start.
“I haven’t really had a plan because everything is so in flux. I don’t what they’re going to come up with tomorrow,” Coil said.
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[@gregkirkos6929]

Thank you for including Andrea in this story. She does so much for the city.

[@christinemerritt974]

Leaving a notice on someone’s car at 5:00pm on Monday, and then towing it at 9:00 am on Wednesday is NOT 3 days notice.😢

[@marzsit9833]

close enough when the vehicle has been sitting there for weeks already.

[@julesjames593]

Three years and he can't get a plan together!?!?!? Not government's problem! Move along.

[@truthadvocacy]

@@larryj1048 " Employers are desperate for workers." Maybe in highly qualified jobs.

[@georgetudhope6940]

Uplift, the old millionaires club, put me to work right away so I was able to get out of a tent and move into a room on capitol hill for 300 a week. Tell everyone Uplift northwest has three meals a day and job's and a lot of stuff for anyone with foodstamps

[@kevlar7669]

Where do they dump the poop?

[@223_.LaMafiosa]

They will be back tomorrow 🤣 Seattle is great at failing to clean up our city . "Ring around the Rosie's "

[@Scawtsauce]

too expensive to live in Seattle

[@Lincoln-ht2dv]

Can't they get a job ? What's so f ing hard !?

[@marzsit9833]

try getting a job when you have no place to take a shower. think about that...

[@robertferda7846]

Tell them: Get help or get out. No mercy.

[@chrischris8550]

There must be some real hard luck stories in those communities! Those people didn't create the uncaring society we live in, they just put up with it.

[@truthadvocacy]

no serious help available, just band aids.