Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the scale of the homeless problem we’ve been dealing with in Wallingford? Frustrated and wondering what you can do?
This week’s Wallingford Community Council meeting will feature a representative from the city’s Navigation Team. They’re the people specially trained to help people living in unauthorized encampments get the services and support they need. The Navigation Team representative will speak to safety concerns about illegal encampments, garbage, and hazardous waste (needles, human feces), as well as cover what the police can do and what residents can do.
Details:
- When: Wednesday, September 5th, at 7 p.m.
- Where: Room 202 of the Good Shepherd Center.
All are welcome to attend.
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Would love it if a synopsis of this could be shared – maybe an article or short entry in Wallyhood for those of us unable to attend. Also – knowing what we can (and can’t) do on a very local level, city / county level and nationally – understanding this is also a nationwide problem.
How can you help the homeless in your community? This Saturday, September 8, the Wallingford Community Council and University Sunrise Rotary Club are sponsoring a community work project to help the residents lay new gravel walkways at the Nickelsville Northlake Tiny House Village in Wallingford.
Currently sharp stones and concrete make it very difficult to walk from the little houses to other facilities. The new gravel pathways will make getting around much easier for residents. This is a big project, and we need a lot of volunteers!
Bring a rake, shovel, wheelbarrow or just yourself and come join the WCC, Rotarians, and Nickelsville residents in making this project a success!
University Sunrise Rotary Club will be providing coffee starting at 8:30 AM, and we will begin working at 9:00 AM. There will be a hot dog lunch at noon.
The Nickelsville Northlake Tiny House Village is at 3814 4th Ave NE (north of Ivar’s Salmon House).
1st Shift: 9 AM to 12 PM (Noon).
2nd Shift: 1 PM to 4 PM – volunteers needed in the afternoon!
Sign up for a volunteer shift at the Wallingford Community Council web page:
https://www.wallingfordcc.org/2018/09/05/nickelsville-gravel-project-saturday-september-8/
Too bad so few of those little pathways lead to permanent housing.
For information on how to change the policies that have brought so much suffering and addiction to our city, please see: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Speak.out.seattle/
They actually installed gates recently at the entrance to lower Woodland Park just off the north side of 50th. It would be good to know if they actually kick out the RVers and tent campers each night. Otherwise, what’s the point? Especially considering that just last week a FIVE YEAR OLD was assaulted there by one of our “vulnerable community members.”
I feel a sense of communuty.
Could someone who attended this meeting leave us with a synopsis? Or would the CC like to pffer an article to Wallyhood/ ( This comment may be deleted if it is followed with an insult or parody or sarcasm from the person who has been warned to STOP. Additional actions will also be taken.)
lets start with enforcing the laws – trespassing, litter, theft, drug use, drug sales, no tabs on junk RVs, no insurance for junk RVs, no emissions checks for junk RVs, junk RVs dumping raw sewage…did i forget anything?
what good does offering services if the “homeless” deny them and chose to camp out in our parks and greenbelts? how can anyone think this is ok?
finally, “permanent housing”? so tax payers should foot the bill for any and everyone that shows up to this expensive city and pay for their apartment? is an apartment good enough? maybe they deserve a house?
Whether it’s housing, social services, or law enforcement, you choose how much you want to pay and you get what you pay for: per England’s last one night count versus Seattle-King County’s one night count, there are about the same number of people sleeping outdoors overnight in all of England as King County (4,751 vs 4,505) and a lot more in Seattle than London (2,942 here versus 1,137 in London).
(I don’t think I need to post proof that England has many more people than King County, and London a ton more than Seattle.)
England/London:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/682001/Rough_Sleeping_Autumn_2017_Statistical_Release_-_revised.pdf
Seattle-King County:
http://www.homelessinfo.org/what_we_do/one_night_count/2016_results.php
yeah, because the services are offered but very often declined because they don’t satisfy the person living in the street – drugs, rules, all that fussy stuff.