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City-sanctioned homeless encampment opens in Seattle

By The Associated Press
Published: November 20, 2015, 6:59am

SEATTLE (AP) — Residents have started moving in to Seattle’s first-ever permitted homeless encampment.

The “Tent City Five Interbay” encampment, which holds up to 80 people, opened Thursday. Organizers expect the camp to be full by next week.

An encampment in Ballard that can accommodate 50 people will open this weekend.

Stu Tanquist, who is in charge of operations at Interbay, says the camp has a list of rules that residents must follow in order to live there. He says that no drugs, alcohol or offensive language will be accepted.

The camps have been met with opposition by some nearby homeowners and business owners. But Mayor Ed Murray says the encampments are a better alternative to the illegal camps that homeless residents have set up in other parts of the city.

 

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