A New Strategy to Stop the Sweeps: Ban Spending Money on Them

The proposal comes from Kshama Sawant and Mike O'Brien.by Heidi GrooverA protest during the city's sweep of "The Jungle," an encampment under I-5. HG
Activists have for years been calling on Seattle to stop forcibly removing people living outside in public spaces. But even as the city has increased the outreach and services offered to people living in homeless encampments, it has continued to clear them. Council Members Kshama Sawant and Mike O'Brien have a new proposal to try to stop that pract