There are at least four in Seattle or King County right now, and at least a hundred more around the nation, according to a 2014 report on the rise of tent cities in the U.S. that Eric Tars co-edited.

Tent camps aren’t supposed to stay in one place for more than a year (they can petition the city for a second year), so it’s hard to put in infrastructure. In 2016, Seattle Public Library ...

One of Seattle’s biggest emergency-shelter providers is planning to close its facilities in March and open three new tent cities because of a funding dispute involving the privacy rights of the ...

The Seattle City Council has cleared the way for three new homeless camps, but what the city is spending money to study has a lot of people raising eyebrows. Right now, you can erect tent cities ...

As part of that campaign, the city of Seattle has granted permits for three “tent cities” – temporary encampments of up to 100 homeless men, women and children that are designed to connect ...

SEATTLE — Mayor Ed Murray says there’s been a recent spike in the number of illegal homeless encampments in Seattle, and he’s wants additional “tent cities” approved to help address the ...

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Citing the need for an immediate, temporary solution to a city-wide problem, Seattle's Planning, Land Use and Sustainability Committee took public comment Thursday night on a ...

While San Francisco works to dismantle tent cities, Seattle is allowing them to help get homeless people off the streets. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula North Bay.

About 8 percent of people in Seattle's tent cities have moved on to better housing since they opened in late 2015.

There are at least four in Seattle or King County right now, and at least a hundred more around the nation, according to a 2014 report on the rise of tent cities in the US that Eric Tars co-edited.

Seattle already has four tent cities on properties owned by religious institutions, a practice protected by state law. The Mayor’s action stems from advice from his Emergency Task Force on Unsheltered ...

In January, Mayor Ed Murray suggested that the city issue permits for three additional tent cities as a temporary measure to provide some degree of safety for people living on the streets. “I’ve been ...