200K pounds of debris removed from encampments along I-5 in Seattle's U-District

Описание: State crews are securing the sites of several homeless encampments that have been cleared near I-5 in the University District of Seattle.

Crews said 28 of the 30 people who were living in the encampments on Washington State Department of Transportation property accepted referrals for shelter and services.

According to WSDOT, 210,000 pounds of debris were removed from several encampments along I-5 between 45th Street and 50th Street in recent weeks. Crews are now shoring up 2,000 feet of fencing and adding 700 feet of new chain link fencing to the area.

This was the 32nd encampment cleared under the state’s 2022 ‘Right of Way’ initiative, which allocated around $150 million to help the homeless who were living on state property near highways.
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