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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Mar 14, 2021, 03:42 PM Mar 2021

Businesses and the homeless at odds over Everett ordinance

EVERETT — The signs declaring “private property” and “no trespassing” are seemingly everywhere along Smith Avenue and the surrounding neighborhood in downtown Everett. They are just one indication of a larger clash between commerce and homelessness.

The area is industrial — home to auto shops, wholesale suppliers and specialty services, as well as Everett Station, the Everett Gospel Mission and, often, a visible population of people living on the streets.

Tents, tarps and shopping carts have gradually become part of the landscape on the sidewalks and under an I-5 overpass. Dozens of people take refuge in the corridor.

On Wednesday, the Everett City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance that would prohibit sitting or lying on the streets and sidewalks in a 10-block area perceived to have borne the brunt of Everett’s homelessness crisis.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/businesses-and-the-homeless-at-odds-over-everett-ordinance/

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Businesses and the homeless at odds over Everett ordinance (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2021 OP
I live north on 19th. away from this area. It is an eyesore but it wasn't that big of a deal until Ferryboat Mar 2021 #1

Ferryboat

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1. I live north on 19th. away from this area. It is an eyesore but it wasn't that big of a deal until
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 04:00 PM
Mar 2021

New housing was built near by. Sitting or standing is something everyone does. Not so much laying on the ground.

Criminalizing homelessness is not right. It is a huge problem in Everett but hassling the homeless just pushes them into other areas and burdens them with fines they cant pay.

My neighbors and myself have had our cars ransacked, garages broken into.

I dont have an answer for the problem, but the problem became serious when low income housing was replaced with Xfinity center and other redevelopment in the area with no thought to those displaced.

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