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Seattle Has Been Quietly Dismantling Homeless Encampments In Order To Clean Up The City

Emily Zanotti

Seattle’s mayor recently authorized a crackdown on homeless encampments within the city but seems to be keeping the actual execution of the pilot program quiet, so that the city’s social justice warriors don’t catch on.

The Seattle Times reports that, unlike other cities facing a homelessness crisis (which may be a thinly disguised addiction crisis), Seattle is trying to make headway against the temporary encampments clogging its city sidewalks, and cleaning up what amounts to both a security and hygiene threat to the city’s residents.

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