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.

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.

Norm Rice was mayor of Seattle in the 1990s, when the first tent cities appeared. At the time, the camps were widely considered a uniquely Seattle thing; just part of the city's lefty politics.

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Only a week before Seattle was faced with the prospect of three new homeless encampments popping up in city parks—and an inevitable battle among hundreds of homeless, homeowners, and Seattle ...

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 ...

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 ...