Burien's City Council passed a city camping ban during a meeting Monday. Ordinance 818 passed in a 4-3 vote and it goes into effect Nov. 1.
“Creating an anti-camping ordinance when we don’t have anywhere for them to go doesn’t help anyone. It just tells them, once again ‘We don’t want you here,'” Moore said Monday.
“At this point, just something needs to be done,” another resident, Curtis Warick, said. “I’m sad ultimately that there has been this much inaction.” The City of Burien has discussed many different solutions, including using a private group, The More We Love, to clear out encampments after multiple Burien business owners worked with the organization to help remove homeless from camps near their businesses.
Other residents at the public comment said the council’s move could backfire, stating that forcing people into sobriety or treatment may not work for everyone and that criminalizing the homeless could make things worse. “Homelessness is solvable, so instead of spending a lot of time on camping bans, let’s talk about the solutions to homelessness,” Barb Oliver, Director of Operations for Sound Foundations NW, said. “I will sit down with a cup of coffee with anybody that’s here and talk about that further.” Sound Foundations NW is an organization that builds transitional tiny homes for the homeless.Share
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