{"id":2316,"date":"2016-02-21T04:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T04:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2016-02-21T04:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T04:24:56","slug":"seattle-to-open-a-third-encampment-several-safe-parking-zones-while-santa-cruz-tightens-rv-restrictions-homeless-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/seattle-to-open-a-third-encampment-several-safe-parking-zones-while-santa-cruz-tightens-rv-restrictions-homeless-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle to Open a Third Encampment, Several Safe Parking Zones while Santa Cruz Tightens RV Restrictions, Homeless Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NORSE’S NOTES:\u00a0\u00a0 In Seattle, WA, authorities are taking some steps to provide the beginnings of emergency shelter\/housing options for those outside–those with vehicles and those without.\u00a0\u00a0 In Santa Cruz, police continue to harass homeless with no shelter (See “<\/span>Santa Cruz Police Target Homeless Sleepers Downtown<\/strong>” at https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2016\/02\/17\/18783025.php)<\/a>; have instituted an RV nighttime parking permit requirement (excluding homeless people);\u00a0 and decline to overhaul the long roster of anti-homeless laws the City Council has cooked up over the years.\u00a0 Merchants with free-standing commercial signs casually block the sidewalk 12-24 hours per day, while homeless people seeking the necessities of life are banned from sitting on 98% of the sidewalk and forced to “move along” every hour, not come back for 24 hours, and face daily harassment from hosts, security thugs, and armed “law enforcement”.<\/p>\n

To view video, documents, and comments, go to
\n<\/span>http:\/\/www.king5.com\/story\/news\/local\/seattle\/2016\/02\/19\/first-safe-lot-homeless-living-vehicles-opens\/80635638\/<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>http:\/\/www.king5.com\/story\/news\/local\/seattle\/2016\/01\/19\/seattle-homeless-rv-park\/78995146\/<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>http:\/\/www.king5.com\/story\/news\/local\/seattle\/2016\/02\/15\/south-seattle-could-get-citys-third-homeless-encampment\/80407100\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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South Seattle could get city’s third homeless encampment<\/h1>\n<\/section>\n
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A proposal could mean tents and tiny houses go up in the 7500 block of Renton Avenue South, just off MLK, south of the Othello Light Rail station.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Josh Green<\/a>, KING 5 News 7:37 p.m. PST February 15, 2016<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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