At least someone is agreeing with someone else on this SODO homeless camp issue. In response to the continued pissing match between the second and seventh floors of city hall, council member Nick Licata sent out this press release this evening:

“The insistence that the Council must consider land use legislation that does not need to be immediately passed is a distraction from debating the merits of whether to sanction a self-governed encampment. We need to focus on meeting the survival and safety needs of individuals in our community who have no access to safe shelter.

“Yesterday’s letter from four City Councilmembers, including myself, said that the Council is willing to retain the second proposed bill and ‘discuss the merits of moving forward to fund the remediation of a site and staffing of a project, despite the uncertainty of the outcome of the land use decisions yet to be made.’

“I look forward to Council deliberation in the near future on legislation related to this element of the project.”

Three cheers for agreeing to discuss a proposal, you guys.

Former Stranger news writer Cienna Madrid has been a writer in residence for Richard Hugo House, a local literary nonprofit. There, she taught fiction classes and wrote 4/5 of a book about a death-row...

3 replies on “Nick Licata, Agreeing with Tim Harris on Homeless Camps”

  2. This is not a permanent to a chronic problem, but a long-term solution to a policy argument.

    One room apartments, if we didn’t spend the housing levy money on that then maybe we missed a chance to do better with what we have.

  3. Actually, Cienna, this is Nick Licata’s gentle way of telling people like Tim Harris to actually read the letter before criticizing its contents. When you read Tim’s posts from Friday you see he was furiously demanding that the council hold hearings on precisely what the letter says they’re ready to hold hearings on.

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