In King County, 11 encampments have been cleared with work on a 12th underway as part of the state right-of-ways initiative.
A photo of one of several homeless encampments that have recently been cleared near I-5 in the University District of Seattle. Efforts to help the homeless on state properties are seeing steady success and many of the people being helped off the streets are remaining in housing even weeks or months later.
However, doubts remain for some neighbors who lived next to these encampments about how long the state-run program can keep the tents and trash from returning. “They cleaned it out twice, and they came back a second time. Now they're not back there anymore, thank goodness," said Beatrice Funke, who lives in a senior housing complex just across the street.The Myers Way site was one of the early encampments targeted by the state's right-of-way initiative. Neighbors complained of ongoing crime and watched as homeless campers set up a swimming pool where they would smoke fentanyl.
A major milestone for the state Encampment Resolution Initiative is the rate of keeping people indoors. According to the State Dept. of Commerce, 89% of the homeless people living along freeway shoulders or other state properties were connected to housing, and 18 months after the initiative began, 73% remain stable and inside.
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