Encampment on sidewalk between South Lake Union and Seattle Center continues to grow

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SEATTLE - An unauthorized homeless encampment scheduled to be cleared from the public sidewalk that connects South Lake Union to Seattle Center is getting bigger.
The encampment along Harrison Street over the entrance to the State Route 99 tunnel nearly covered the entire block on Wednesday. The sidewalk encampment is dotted with tents, stoves, chairs and other belongings.
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SEATTLE - A King County Council member is requesting funding to help relieve a court backlog of eviction cases.
Councilmember Reagan Dunn sent a letter on Tuesday to the chair of the King County Council and the chair of the Council’s Budget and Fiscal Management Committee requesting the funding.
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@krewciaI 3 месяца назад

Can't help those that don't want help. They want to continue drug use and that's why they refuse treatment. Anyone contributing to them while they refuse treatment, you're also a problem and an enabler.

@DerexLuvsJenkins 3 месяца назад

Refuse treatment? Have you ever even been to rehab? Do you know how absolutely miserable it is? You sit in group all day long from 8 AM to 4 PM while people are making money off of your pain and suffering?

@Baebon6259 3 месяца назад

@@DerexLuvsJenkins so keep using drugs is the way? gtfoh.

@cryptopiamania1706 3 месяца назад

drugs are bad , avoid them and people involved with them often as possible. Even doctors can’t and big pharma are adding to the drug epidemic. Profits over People and Families. Middle class is dead. 😵 Wake up.

@WinstonSmith1997 3 месяца назад

Krewcial Finally a comment from somebody with a brain.

@JoeLouis-hc7mm 3 месяца назад

Ah this will never change , people always gonna be on the street

@susantully1533 3 месяца назад

Im done feeling bad for ppl who dont want help. If you wont take drug treatment to get off the street then you should go to jail.

@judd442009 3 месяца назад

Not a penny for Mayor Harrell's Transportation Levy until he cleans up the encampments.

@KonekoPurrrfection 3 месяца назад

They should sleep outside inslees house

@Larry-gn1xj 3 месяца назад

Jay cares more for ORCAS.

@joesimons7387 3 месяца назад

Seattle and King County are pig holes. If you have rental properties there I wish you luck the chances are good you will get scammed by a squatter. I was born and raised there and I do not recognize what has happened in Seattle. Left in 1994 to never return

@LilyGazou 3 месяца назад

Can’t argue with that. It’s bad.

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

Lucky you, now go away

@--JohnDoe 3 месяца назад

When I was homeless in to 90's it was unthinkable to just set up a tent on the sidewalk, you would have been arrested within hours. Homeless stayed under bridges or in the woods, out of public sight. Although there was alot less "homeless", because fentanyl didn't exist yet.

@michelleburkholder2547 3 месяца назад

The green belts, 100% pack in, pack out. I learned from the soldiers.

@flanagamer 3 месяца назад

Also, rents weren’t $2,500/month for a studio 😐

@CatWhiskering 2 месяца назад

@@flanagamer LOL it's not $2500 for a studio, stop lying. 😂 Whatever studio rents for that you're not good enough for. Sorry not sorry but it's the truth. You're not entitled to a luxury studio like a tech employee who worked hard to get themselves through a Master's in computer science. You can live within your means just like the normal, valuable, productive people do.

@SylvesterCartier 3 месяца назад

I have a Coleman tent, but the homeless have a North Face tent? I must be doing something wrong.

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

You jealous?

@CatWhiskering 3 месяца назад

Look at those nice new tents. They get their brand-new donated tents (some of them worth hundreds of dollars) thrown out in the sweep, then line up at REI and North Face to get brand-new ones and set them right back up in their old spot on the sidewalk, where the city's guaranteed to not bother them again for at least another six months. Why should they care? They get them for free.

@susantully1533 3 месяца назад

Wait...where do I line up to get a free tent? I'm not homeless but I need a new tent.

@LilyGazou 3 месяца назад

😂 new tents

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

You jealous?

@susantully1533 3 месяца назад

@@Ammi2255 hell yeah I am. I work hard and have a Walmart tent that is 15 years old. I want one of those all weather north face tents!! Anyone wanna trade?

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

@@susantully1533 must be a sign of the end times

@judd442009 3 месяца назад

Why doesn't Michelle Esteban get the "City" officials on video to explain why things are not happening? No accountability until the light of the camera exposes the ineffectiveness.

@fleabag2mr.151 3 месяца назад

Elections have consequences so enjoy what you voted for 😂😂😂.

@RScott413 3 месяца назад

Inslee... Seattle council and the ultra progressive legislators in the state house aren't going to help ANYONE except themselves. Whatever the right thing is, the government in Wa is wrong

@justinthomas2458 3 месяца назад

Remember this around election time folks

@Larry-gn1xj 3 месяца назад

They never do. GLAD I MOVED.

@postscript5549 3 месяца назад

It seems TOO MANY PEOPLE are making money on homelessness - including government workers.

@captaincapitalism264 3 месяца назад

The Homeless Industrial Complex is alive & well in King County, and has been for 20 years by this point. And the Seattle voters keep on "voting blue, no matter who" and not connecting the dots. 🙄

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

How can I make money from it?

@captaincapitalism264 3 месяца назад

@@Ammi2255 Get a job with a 'non-profit' organization which receives grant$ from state & federal governments. Or start your own.

@Here4theComments9 3 месяца назад

“No one here has taken offers for help.”

@fedbia2003 3 месяца назад

Yup. Just drove by it with my family from Florida. They haven't seen an encampment that big before.

@betrevryday1 3 месяца назад

Stealing EVERYTHING that isn’t nailed down in the surrounding areas 😢

@tommykrynock 3 месяца назад

It's sad but you can't live on the sidewalk

@Mrs.TJTaylor 3 месяца назад

Why is that sad?

@tommykrynock 3 месяца назад

@@Mrs.TJTaylor pooping no place to poop 💩

@lostinthedesert-hp4bw Месяц назад

@@tommykrynock They poop and pee everywhere, including the sidewalk.

@davidwilfong5820 3 месяца назад

Is Seattle going to build more sidewalks for the homeless

@Mrs.TJTaylor 3 месяца назад

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

Yes

@pamallinder3287 3 месяца назад

It's hard living next door to a drug dealer whose eviction court date is December

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

You jealous?

@kathleenardrey5094 2 месяца назад

@@Ammi2255 go away troll

@robertafierro5592 3 месяца назад

Blame the people, not the Politicians..everything that happens, they ARE aware of.

@rholmst 3 месяца назад

Drug addicts.

@LilyGazou 3 месяца назад

There are seniors are waiting lists for housing. For years. Meanwhile new apartments are given to fake refugees.

@bradleybruvva3021 2 месяца назад

And it’s smelling more and more like piss through-out the city.

@stevenvonsancho 3 месяца назад

Just get rid if the drug problem

@user-zt9ws2dz4c 3 месяца назад

Summer of love 2024 🎉

@dalmarcadde1507 3 месяца назад

Other cities sent them to seattle.

@bigboithe8th 2 месяца назад

Wish I had bought stock in tent manufacturers. Maybe then I could afford to live in Seattle.

@iii9266 3 месяца назад

SEND. THEM. PACKING.

@davidnewman2541 3 месяца назад

It might be time to apply our laws and ordinances to protect public safety.

@catmi3068 3 месяца назад

If there is a tent, action need to be taken. If not it will grow and grow and will be out of control.

@gailjames6489 3 месяца назад

They came from Burien because we offer help as well and they absolutely totally disregard any help so they move to another location. Tell them HI from Burien for me.🤣😅🤣😅

@LilyGazou 3 месяца назад

Is it ok to shop in Burien again? It was crazy a few months back.

@seandonahue8464 3 месяца назад

Is the system fixable? His answer, “If they start holding people accountable.” Which means No.

@russellbrown6975 22 дня назад

Drug addicts don't want treatment, They want DRUGS

@universeconsciouscitizensc592 3 месяца назад

Homelessness is a visible sign of the failure of our nation to take care of it's citizens. It's not just drug use, but even then, addiction does not portend a dark heart or vile thoughts, though that is evidenced by many of great wealth. Other nations deal with these problems without being as cruel or thoughtless, but the USA is a materialist nation, so regular and unfortunate people don't matter as much in general.

@kalijasin 3 месяца назад

Money for wars but Not the poor.

@pinoygal6232 3 месяца назад

Drop the "S" and it rhymes!

@pamallinder3287 3 месяца назад

True. They will be back

@markstocker5121 3 месяца назад

So that's where the UW campers went.

@catmi3068 3 месяца назад

This is crazy. If you live in any location you have to pay. Tenants pays the landlord then the landlord pays the property taxes. Are the officials saying that if the tenants do not pay rent then the property owners do not need to pay property tax?

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

Yes

@nicholasthompson7690 3 месяца назад

the city needs more AFFORDABLE and deeply AFFORDABLE housing. not luxury stuff.

@davidwilfong5820 3 месяца назад

Bruce Harrold should step down

@nicholasthompson7690 3 месяца назад

Does WA allow recall?

@pamallinder3287 3 месяца назад

Absolutely

@1greatNorthwestmom 3 месяца назад

People complain about people without homes without recognizing the cost of just a rental or home in the area entails 80+ hours a week at minimum wage, then the person still has to eat and be clothed, have electricity and running water on what money???

@podunkparte 3 месяца назад

None of these people are simply regular citizens who can't afford rent. They're junkies addicted to opioids. It's time to stop catering to those who want to smoke fentanyl all day over you, me, and everyone else. I dare you to find one person living in a tent down there who worked 1 40 hour work week in the last 5 years.

@doloreswilson6698 3 месяца назад

Right on Andrea

@shayallday5935 3 месяца назад

I think we were all done with this BS years ago

@lostinthedesert-hp4bw Месяц назад

No you’re not because you keep voting for liberals.

@brysoncherry9884 2 месяца назад

The few in the streets vs the 30ksh million thatve flooded in. im sure this will matter

@drregmonster4371 3 месяца назад

Everybody's working hard except for these entitled losers. It's a crime to loiter and do nothing.

@Ammi2255 3 месяца назад

Hell yeah brother!!! The reporter sounds like a rotten brat

@francis-m1z День назад

i wish my tax dollars went toward mandatory mental health/addiction treatment and CLEAN&SOBER housing. tiny house "villages" that still enable drug use and don't enforce clean&sober standatds are still just encampments and they still affect the community.