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Nickelsville has moved for the third time in about as many weeks, this time setting up camp in the University District. The homeless encampment has moved from Discovery Park to a parking lot owned by the University Christian Church on 15th Avenue Northeast. Organizers are hopeful this will become a more permanent home for the encampment, but as with the camp's previous incarnations, the city most likely has other plans for Nickelsville. Plans which seem to involve forcing the camp to move week by week to opposite ends of the city, with the constant threat of arrest for campers and organizers, despite the fact the city has no better housing option for residents.
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My wife and I stopped by earlier today, and saw a few dozen tents and some healthy, happy looking adult men hanging out.
Is the City of Seattle really being unkind by hassling these people? I don't see that the tents cause much of a problem, but I don't know if the Ave or the campus need more homeless people.
I live in Seattle. I just dissed the Mayor on my blog-One of five actually. For years, I faced conflicts of my own, in many cities across the world, I've see the elephant of War-too many times, buried too many people. We are seeing a philosophy of hatred that have tainted the very fabric of our existence.
What Hitler did to the Jews, Nickels does to the homeless. They both persecuted them, jailed them and killed them (directly or indirectly) it doesn't matter. It's still a death led by a tainted belief. Death knows no circumstance, it doesn't discriminate.
7 million homeless were made just recently by the sub-prime mortgage, Rita, Katrina, Ike and now the looming threat of economic depression, I am glad that Scott Morrow, Peggy Hote and homeless like Tex are there-helping those who face the challenges prima facie a intentional Ten Year Delay in Housing for a plan that doesn't grow with homeless. We need more people who look beyond personal disdain for others.
Thanks, Seattlest, for continuing to cover the Nickelsville story. I was disappointed to see nothing but mockery come from the Stranger's Slog.
The camp is at a capacity of 65 tents right now, but that's only because they have yet to gain access to the tents that were swept by the city at the original Marginal way location. They'd love to add more, so if anyone has tents and blankets to donate, take them down to University Christian and check out the camp, too.
No one thinks that old school shanty towns are the perfect solution, but what they can offer in the absence of proper shelter is miles above and beyond what sleeping in doorways can.