Seattle’s longest running ‘sanctioned’ homeless camp must move and has no place to go

Seattle’s only ‘sanctioned’ homeless encampment has to move and it has no place to go. It comes at a time when Mayor Bruce Harrell is changing how the city handles the homelessness crisis.
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[@vallee7966]

Andrew Lewis should offer his house & yard for the homeless camp.

[@aanthonyha]

they need to go. 🤢

[@vallee7966]

To the moon or the bottom of the Pacific

[@lumieredice485]

Yeah, like Canada or south of America where it's more affordable

[@gawo8375]

These tent cities are drug distribution centers. And thank your city council for this mess.

[@betrevryday1]

Exactly !

[@cristineconnell7803]

Bring back law, order & accountability! Stop enabling dysfunctional & illegal behavior & it will stop progressing on steroids! I believe in helping your fellow man, but not in self destruction!

[@norml.hugh-mann]

They Remove the trash cans then complain about the trash. They eliminate public restrooms and complain when people use an alley The homeless crisis is very similar...People support policies that produce more and more income inequality and complain that people are poor enough to not compete with rising renta

[@rilorobinson7685]

Christine I live in fair wood cascade and the homeless have EXHAUSTED me!!! However for the mentally ill actual psycho people there has to be a place they can go!! Whether that is a mental hospita, some sort of land there has to be a place they can just permanently go... They move them around then they end up in the burbs

[@artstocker60]

Secure the border. 7 million dirt poor people from heaven-knows-where are straining our social services and helping to bankrup us. (You people who voted for Biden, this is your fault)

[@seattleflyboard3807]

why on earth would they sanction more homeless blight on a city they are trying to clean up?? This is one of the most insane ideas i've ever seen.

[@ephraimschulze5806]

Shelters are welcoming them Ask them WHY they don't want to move into help????

[@bodyzoasispersonaltraining9186]

Let's get them jobs cleaning up the streets

[@aaronandrew7347]

Because shelters won't let them drink or get high.

[@sarbantz]

fentanyl

[@bmck5002]

Shelters don't accept drug addicts. Plus they have curfews. Let the junkies freeze. Im glad I moved to Texas a few months ago. They don't put up with this shlt here.

[@cristineconnell7803]

Accountability!

[@lysliepope3967]

It's not the city's fault that these people have no place to go to live. This problem will not be solved in Seattle until most of the homeless population stops using drugs and alcohol.

[@dylantobin21]

You comment makes me want to use drugs but thank you for contributing now try again and maybe something actually helpful thats not a 1980 dare catchphrase? Anything? Got any spare boitstraps we can pass them out maybe that will help lol thanks boomer

[@dh2392]

Employers everywhere are hiring, and yet these people still can't find a job. Well, that was never the issue, they can't hold a job. Most of them are where they are because they're addicts. Here's the progression. They can't hold a job because of their addiction, and because they can't hold a job, they also can't pay rent, and they end up homeless. This whole narrative about affordable housing is just a lie to excuse the homeless problem here. If I couldn't afford housing here, I would move elsewhere, it's that simple. I sure as hell wouldn't live on the streets, and no one capable of a choice would.

[@haveyouseengeorgehennen]

@@dh2392 exactly and they show no sign of progression, you'd think they'd go from a tent to eventually owning at least s car to sleep in, than save enough money for rent, but they don't maintain jobs that's why.

[@dh2392]

@@haveyouseengeorgehennen They can't hold jobs, or money. The primary goal of their panhandling is to get money for that next fix.

[@galemartin9155]

I'm done. This situation has exhausted both my patience and my compassion.

[@earnwolfe244]

Put em in jail like we used to when things worked

[@elizabetta2453]

PUT THESE PEOPLE TO WORK & STOP THE FREEBIES THAT WILL STOP THESE PEOPLE FROM COMING

[@fastfreddy3103]

They need to go.

[@valeriependelton5819]

I don't understand why homelessness is blamed on someone's political party. As an adult child of severe abuse, sexual assault it is about personal accountability! No one seems to take responsibility for themselves anymore. This is part of the reason I loathe Seattle. To much enabling!

[@vallee7966]

@ you’ve said exactly nothing of consequence, but you’ve told us tons about yourself. Product of poor parenting. Your mother should be slapped.

[@seattleflyboard3807]

homeless junkies are of NO political party...i've never met one that even voted. Democratic Liberal cities tend to have larger and far more crime ridden homeless populations. though this is mostly because Republican cities put their homless on a free bus to SF, Seattle, and LA....which is not a dumb idea from a budget standpoint...they saved billions.

[@malekodesouza7255]

Hey, law abiding Seattle taxpayers…had enough yet? Voting has consequences.

[@spinflux]

Yes and we need to stop voting for people who refuse to tax the ample amount of wealth flowing in the state required to get the displaced houseless into homes, make rents affordable, and get undesirables off the street and out of our faces.

[@sinebar]

Those people seem like normal folks. Organized, clean and not on drugs. Find them a permanent place Seattle!

[@dh2392]

The sheer number of syringes cleaned up every day in Seattle says otherwise.

[@djwright9347]

How about a job?

[@dh2392]

@@djwright9347 exactly, employers everywhere are hiring. But it's impossible to hold a job when you don't show because you're high.

[@mudnocchio]

@@dh2392 or too cold to make it on foot after sleeping hours in cold winds; make it make sense

[@fionafifi7029]

@@djwright9347 i think some have jobs but cant get an apartment for different reasons. Its so sad. I used to be homeless working making $500-$600 every two weeks and i didnt qualify for an apartment. I looked for an apartment and kept getting turned down so ended up on the street. Slept on a church step at night. Every homeless shelter filled up with other homeless people before i could get a place to sleep there. These encampments help some of these homeless. I dont know their situations but not all are on drugs and some are the nicest people you will meet.

[@krnwyldchild69]

If Seattle's Mayor, The Seattle City Council and Jay Inslee, (Biden's Mini Me) doesn't do anything about Seattle, it'll fast turn into California's homeless and drug epidemic in Seattle.

[@marieross3440]

Just yuck 🤮 the leadership is awful and they allowed all of this. Needles, drugs, no police, record crime, fires, theft... come on man what did you think would happen? The city allowed this

[@ryksorensen496]

Midterms!

[@dougdimmadoodahdaay7887]

it's not about the votes, it's about who counts the votes comrade

[@Jordan-Ramses]

More homeless camps. What could go wrong?

[@Schlabbeflicker]

Why don't the homeless people agree to volunteer or work for free in exchange for housing/food?

[@unovox]

One less reason for me to want to visit America......

[@bhamgathering]

the moving around option is working? is that what they are reporting?

[@Mr206michael1]

I stayed in tent city about 11 years ago, I live there about 2 years, we moved every three months to a different church host. Very strict rules concerning drug and alcohol use. Once I did find a job, I had to leave at 10pm to get the three buses to arrive at 6am to start work, after a short amount of time I was able to rent a bed in a clean and sober house...after two years I was able to save enough for a apartment, I am now in that same apartment........So no matter what you may think, there is a need for places such as this.

[@karenhuebert6712]

It needs to be set up in Olympia...neat it's business center or government offices.

[@proudamerican3117]

There are plenty of rich liberals that reside in Seattle to cover this problem 10 times over, wonder why they do not step up and pay for everything they need? It is easier to keep voting for their Democratic buddies so EVERYONE gets punished and then they feel so warm and fuzzy for doing the right thing for these poor unfortunate people.

[@jes6161]

I love how people like think you have a say on what people should do with their money and how to allocate it.

[@proudamerican3117]

@@jes6161 That's what liberal Democrats are all about!

[@cristineconnell7803]

It is slow assisted suicide! While they also hand out free addictions! Creating more mental illness!

[@davidwilfong5820]

Smoking crack

[@dbldekr]

I thought the conservative position was to let churches and charities help these people. Yet even the church is kicking these people out.

[@emiliogonzalez15]

They helped the sip and ship across the street when a housed person broke in to steal the register. If they Hadn't helped the thieves would have stolen a lot more.

[@kuyaali956]

I would urge every person who feels for them not having a place to stay to open your hearts and front doors and take someone in. Give them a place. A room. Food. In your house. Surely you want to make a difference, right?

[@proudamerican3117]

You first, do have any idea what it is like providing for a drug addict?

[@kuyaali956]

@Proud American nah. I didn't vote for this BS. Thanks, though. Sarcasm. Read it again.

[@proudamerican3117]

@@kuyaali956 Yes, Sarcasm. No Worries! I did not vote for the hypocrites either.

[@bmck5002]

Hell no!! I don't want drug addicts in my house! How about you adopt a few instead?

[@kuyaali956]

@@bmck5002 read my response to the other person 👍

[@creamcheesediarrhea1006]

Such a miracle

[@buttdreads]

Street kids flock to Seattle in the summer for the choice handouts and free cell phones. Seattle is so good to their homeless

[@kellymcshane3386]

Can Seattle declare it a historic landmark?

[@stephenelder4599]

Burn it. Burn it all.

[@MauriceRivers415]

NYC, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Honolulu and San Francisco are constantly on the news for their high rates of homelessness: what's the end game here? For one, there needs to be more oversight for funding allocated to addressing homelessness in the first place. A large chunk of these nonprofits that receive local/federal funding, are a HUGE part of the problem.: the people who want to get off the streets, can't. They give them just enough resources/information to check off a box, but not a real ladder to escape chronic homelessness/drug addiction.

[@josephmcdougald4230]

They are people who are stagnated and don't want to work and want free bus tickets and food.....time to grow up Tent city enough is enough

[@mencken8]

Never thought the day would come when I’d actually be thankful for our 5-6 months of winter……

[@Slayceos]

But muh Schizophrenia Muh convoy

[@johndutton5881]

Put them all in jail, since they refuse to work pay taxes etc oh and they're all drug addicted criminals.

[@vallee7966]

Put them on chain gangs for weeks long litter pick-ups. Cleaning up their own filth.

[@bmck5002]

Get rid of the low life's, drug addicts, drunks, and welfare abusers!

[@dicktracy5234]

How much do you think people get in welfare? Bill Clinton fixed that problem. You only get a thousand dollars a year and you have to go to school or work.

[@cristineconnell7803]

@@dicktracy5234 and many still take advantage! Thus hurting those it was intended for! However the government was never supposed to be our Nanny! We the People are supposed to fill that role in our churches, & neighborhoods! Instead we handed the responsibility over to big brother! As we allowed him to get bigger & more powerful, we lost more than we can fathom!

[@dicktracy5234]

@@cristineconnell7803 We can be nannies for Ukraine. Why not our own people?

[@cristineconnell7803]

@@dicktracy5234 Always take care of home first! Or you have no resources to help a neighbor/ali! Russia has long wanted access to the Black sea, all around oil/etc. However a great deal of corruption in Ukraine is also part of this! A lot has to do with the timing, & things manipulated to take our attention off of what is happening in our own back yard! I pray for all the innocent people in Ukraine & Russia! But we need to deal with the bumbling puppet destroying our own backyards first! I can't discount Hunter Biden's dealings with Burisma, their 3 million from the widow Russian close to Putin, or the dealings with CCP in China & elsewhere that has the "big guy" getting his 10% cut! BUT GOD! Praying without ceasing!

[@dicktracy5234]

@@cristineconnell7803 I totally agree 👍

[@byloyuripka9624]

i wondwr how long this problem would take to solve if all these people moved to bruce harrells or jay einsleys neighborhood?

[@djwright9347]

They stopped a robbery?! Big fucking deal. The crime exists because of the policies that allow them to camp there. Our beloved city council. Looks like Bruce is cleaning up.

[@Starkesea]

They should go to an hr department and get a job....

[@Ram-1231]

Why don't you volunteer your efforts to help them help themselves. You will see many difficulties and roadblocks that they face trying to get a job. With no address, no phone, no car. Coming to work with dirty clothes and no shower. Are you serious?

[@paddy9449]

GIVE'em the boot!!!!!

[@julesjames593]

Try Portland. Or Wyoming. Camping is a silly plan for those who need social services.

[@Jackjohnjay]

No.

[@chrisberg2083]

It just becomes a BIG BURDEN........ No SHIT!

[@hattrickhagen1531]

Soylent green should be the answer

[@GreenFurnNW]

Should give the homless a one way ticket to California.

[@marioruiz4787]

Haha halirous

[@babysister4206]

Maybe make them pay rent

[@otterdog5397]

Get real,get a job,get a shower,not in that order....

[@skalliewag6226]

send them to inslee's house

[@ANDRE-sp2mi]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏 Another homeless camp different state.

[@Dukers2300]

So woke

[@KimberHall]

Wow, a church that is actually helping people, despite the ugliness, Christ himself would be proud I think… Thank you.

[@technicalactivity]

Jeff bezos

[@sonnychantra3105]

Mountaineer place that's what to be at away from city

[@amygingell2768]

Can’t sweet ol melinda gates maybe help out I dunno

[@josharnold.]

Dislike

[@jettrink7510]

Okay Floyd, round em up and move em out...

[@paulden3158]

Why tf did u guys vote for this mayor? He's doing a poor job so far

[@BasementBerean]

He's a mayor not a dictator. I think he's way better than his predecessor. Give him a chance.

[@vallee7966]

Way better that Jerky Durkan!

[@hectic5173]

Heres an idea. Better yourself. Make a higher wage if you want. Cant? Then move to an area that you can afford. We, the city, dont owe them a penny or shelter. Simple concept.

[@thebloodytruth326]

i thought the newly elected black mayor was going to clean up this mess?

[@dicktracy5234]

We could use the money we giving to UKRAINE for our homeless.

[@marioruiz4787]

Out of all the billions right?

[@cmkeene77]

Must be nice to be white and rich.

[@tatianaallen7001]

Go to another state! Cheaper, with no rain, get a job!

[@DogeLeague]

You can move them to the new shelter in Redmond they are trying to block from opening. Move them there please so the city can be safe again. #MakeSeattleSafeAgain

[@marieross3440]

So make Redmond into Seattle? Just move the problem of millions of un documented people who took sanctuary in Seattle? Seattle allowed this. Now Washington state is slowly a giant tent state. Watch it will become all low income housing with the hotels and motels being bought for them to live. This state is absolutely doomed and they know exactly what they are doing. Imagine if everyone got rid of their police like Seattle did. Is that what law abiding tax payers wanted? Who voted for this ?? Ill wait.. no good logical answer available 👍

[@czardon1128]

U can't go to a shelter if u can't take your belongings with you ,someone will steal it ..also most shelters are only for the night at most .and most places areshut down. By the city or swept ,so if everyone here has a voice why not listen to the ppl for the homeless .find them a place .or be shocked when someone is sleeping in a tent or whatever.its easier to get rid of them then help .so maybe the mayor should do that instead of sweeping them around the city

[@IMP3TIGO]

Maybe you should invite them onto your property instead and let them have a permanent home. Yeah, didn't think so.

[@aaronandrew7347]

Your misinformed. You can't go to a shelter if you want to get drunk or high not that you can't take your stuff. Unless you mean someone else's trash

[@czardon1128]

@@aaronandrew7347 no dummy I'm talking about their clothes,hygiene products shoes. The workers don't have a way for them to bring that when they go sign up,also definitely not misinformed .everyone knows u can't get high or drunk.i also have seen the sweeps.also been homeless when I lost my job and their are not alot of shelters that accept single men.also there aren't as many beds as u think there is.and also if your working a job that let's out after 7 .u can always get access to a shelter .if u work nights. There's no where for you to go during the day time when those shelters aren't open .so maybe get your facts straight

[@cristineconnell7803]

@@czardon1128 all true! But the government that created the mess aren't going to be the ones to fix it! They just find a way to get more from everyone with a job! The few they allow! Less jobs when all our products supply is shipped to China to be made & resold to us! Time to get back to manufacturing in America & bringing jobs home! Instead they allow criminals to run amuck, & drive good people into abject poverty! Be very careful who you vote for! Not what they promise, but by what they actually do! And the ones we have had in control for sometime didn't just create it, they invited more! Even bussed them in from other places! Forget dealing with the mentally ill, just toss them into the street salad mix! Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime! Yet we let apprenticeships fall by the wayside! Have a blessed day!

[@Royalt1981]

why not just sanction and build one huge shelter outside the city with every necessity from food clothes, shower, to job resources, mental health counseling, drug abuse treatment etc. i’m talking acres of indoor outdoor mats, beds tents for the ones who are chronic homeless and for those who just fell on hard times and don’t want to sleep outside. This would draw all the homeless from downtown seattle and other areas where crime and drug abuse inside the city is destroying property and business. i seen it done on a smaller scale in Denver. There was this catholic church in denver that had a layout for the homeless so emaculate they couldn’t refuse. it was a day shelter, but i remember homeless people in flocks going all the way from downtown to 10th and Osage stop and walking the rest of the way for the amazing breakfast 🥞 (stars bucks coffee btw👀) showers toiletries sack lunches and clothing! downtown would be quiet until the time that place closed, unfortunately it was only 6am to 12pm but it worked. they also would have free haircuts on every other Friday and it made the homeless men really clean up. so just think if seattle and surrounding areas funded this and applied all there donations and resources for the homeless to this one mega shelter area how it would eradicate the homeless population and situations in the inner city. Homeless or not, drug addict or not, you can’t turn down a good thing and this catholic shelter in Denver was just that! i remember hearing about it and thinking this guy is just high or lying and i remember him getting me up and going there and oh boy this place was far but it was like some hidden treasure island. amd word of mouth spread and more and more came. If Seattle does the same it will work if you work it. i seen it with my own eyes but it has to be a collaborative effort.

[@vallee7966]

They can’t refuse… many of them will because they prefer doing drugs, stealing, living in filth. They call it “Freedom’.

[@haveyouseengeorgehennen]

Concentration Camp

[@Ram-1231]

Seeing this kind of treatment to people is nothing short of frustrating. The lack of compassion and understanding is sad.

[@sarbantz]

Why do not you open your home to one or two of them, or just let them camp in your yard? You will have feces and needles, and fentanyl smoke can potentially kill you, but hey you will feel good by showing all that compassion by personal example.

[@jes6161]

You should move them into your home/property then.

[@cristineconnell7803]

Enabling self destruction & dysfunction & slow assisted suicide is so much more cruel & inhumane in reality!

[@cristineconnell7803]

@@sarbantz putting a pretty bandaid on a fester wound!

[@logan007hi]

I agree with you 100% I think you should open your house up to them. Would help a lot if you would do that🙂

[@monetschannel5773]

Just buy some gas, thank uncle Joe. And I will thank you for voting for him I love Seattle and Seattle loves joe Biden

[@dylantobin21]

Id rather of had bernie someone that actually wanted to help implement change but you boomers are so stuck with blue or red just cuz daddy taught you not to be open minded damn i cant wait until boomers are just a wiki note of some of the most embarassing things that happened a long time ago

[@BillyJoBuck]

Why

[@thomas1047]

Not so smart in Seattle