Last year Interbay was on the short list to become a semi-permanent home for Nickelsville, Seattle’s roaming tent city, but Mayor McGinn would like to see the residents move to SODO. That may not happen and according to Publicola, Interbay may be back on the list. The nearly 100 people must move on May 15th from their current home in Lake City. The group spent several months in Magnolia before moving along to the University District.
MagnoliaVoice has partnered with the Common Language Project and the Entrepreneurial Journalism class at the University of Washington. In this multi-media presentation, Katie Melton, Ann Trigg and Allison Barrett go inside Nickelsville to learn more about the group.
Continue reading: Nickelsville a city on the move
It is outrageous that a supposedly “well off” country can’t take better care of the victims of the financial casino and the mafia that run it. It is a CRIME that our government bailed out Wallstreet criminals with our tax money who then gave themselves record bonuses for ‘being too big to fail”.
I would rather my tax dollars go to helping the less fortunate, not criminal billionaires!!!!!
If there is a Hell, it won’t be full of any of the poor souls who found themselves “homeless in the land of plenty”, it will be full of Goldman Sachs and JPMC executives and their ilk…..
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You know the banks paid back all the TARP money, with interest, right? I mean, you’re not that ignorant are you?BTW, these folks were bums before 2008. Leo Rhodes, treasurer for Nickelsville has been living in a tent for over 20 years. Not 20 days. Not 20 weeks. Not 20 months. 20 YEARS. He’s not homeless, he’s a happy camper.
These people are not victims, they are bums, that are to lazy to work. They should be housed at a garbage dump, far from us. This would give them a place to live and food to eat.
Just wonderful. We can look forward to increased drug activity, pan handling, littering, petty crime and a decrease in overall safety. The percent of homeless that are truly just a victim of circumstance is small and those who live in tent city are career homeless.
A huge portion of the homeless are so because they are chronic addicts or are mentally ill.
20 to 25% of the homeless population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness. In comparison, only 6% of Americans are severely mentally ill (National Institute of Mental Health, 2009).
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf
Snarkbark.. do your part, let them have your extra bedroom.