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Seattle still doesn’t know what to do with thousands of people living in vehicles

At the last remaining site in Seattle where RV residents can park longterm without tickets or towing, the city is no longer accepting new residents and has not developed a plan to address vehicle homelessness. (Lauren Frohne / The Seattle Times)

Seattle’s plan to open a series of sanctioned parking lots failed, leaving just one site in Sodo with a handful of RVs. Now, people are dying in the lot faster than they are finding housing.

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Matt Irvin, 36, said that he has been staying in the safe zone for about three weeks. “They told me you can’t park here, that you need a permit,” he said, of the outreach worker who first approached him. “They told me, well, I can’t get one, that they’re shutting down the program.” Nine permitted recreational vehicles remain with no new permits being issued in the City of Seattle’s last safe parking zone at Second Avenue South and South Spokane Street in the Sodo neighborhood. Wednesday April 4, 2018.

Seattle still doesn’t know what to do with thousands of people living in vehicles  WATCH

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Seattle Police Sergeant Eric Zerr, in charge of Seattle’s Navigation Team, right, helps a resident of a homeless encampment move his belongings out of the camp on November 15, 2017. The camp, just west of the Interstate 90 Tunnel, was swept and all the residents had to relocate or find services elsewhere. The City of Seattle Navigation Team had worked with these residents for several days to help them find services and alternative shelter. 204190

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