Seattle outreach workers have removed at least dozen homeless camps across the city in 2022, but had their most recent efforts thwarted over the weekend.
Seattle HOPE Team workers have removed at least dozen homeless camps across the city in 2022, but had their most recent efforts thwarted over the weekend.The city had hoped to remove a pair of homeless encampments on Fourth Avenue between James and Columbia in front of City Hall on Sunday, posting a notice two days prior. Activists with a group known as Stop the Sweeps Seattle, calling on advocates to “show up and push back” on the removal, and to “bring signs and mutual aid supplies.
By Sunday, several advocates showed up to block the HOPE Team from clearing the encampments, holding the area for hours and refusing to allow outreach workers in to conduct the removal. Many of those living in tents along the street claimed that the city has failed to offer housing alternatives amid its recent uptick in camp removals.. “That way they won’t see us out in these streets anymore on the sidewalk.”announced last week by Mayor Bruce Harrell, backed by $10 million in donations from local companies like Amazon, Starbucks, and Microsoft.
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