see also: "Report: 2 injured after Seattle officer opens fire near Jungle homeless camp" http://komonews.com/news/local/report-2-…

"Cage Hotels" in vacant Sodo warehouses, with shower/restroom facilities in trailers outside ( http://www.adarestroomtrailers.com/omega… ), could be a quick fix. Each one could house 200, 300 people. The City could get one up and running in 6 months (with the Fire Dept's cooperation).

It's not permanent, but your stuff wouldn't get stolen.

They'll be back tonight .. so what's the point?

Please sign the online petition (search "Stop Seattle from turning our parks into homeless encampments") to prevent the vote of the city council this week. This vote is to allow camping in nearly all Seattle parks on a nearly permanent basis.

This is a horrible idea. We need shelters, not to allow people to camp out in the cold.

@4 Bullshit. That is not what the ordinance says. It ought to be voted down alright, but not for the reasons you say - because those are bullshit.

Heidi: You're absolutely right that there are WAY more than 13 people remaining in the jungle. Trust your sources on this one. Anyone who believes that number is eating horse shit. ("...as final holdouts are evicted from Jungle" reads today's 'Times headline. Ha!)

I took a hike through the area today - counted at least a dozen tents without even going south of Plum St. A lot of the camps are well-hidden and relatively clean, away from the freeway.

The jungle is not that complicated, but it's intricate. The land on the west side of the hill is a mix of WSDOT / Seattle (primarily DPR) / private land holdings with public access allowed in some areas (a dog park, Mountains to Sound trail), and "NO TRESPASSING" in others. Old vacated roads pass through parts of it, by the foundations of homes the City of Seattle purchased and demolished years ago under the threat of eminent domain. It's weird. I can't think of another area of Seattle like it where previously built lots have been returned to the earth.

Not that you'd know any of that from the coverage. Most journalists can't even get the geography right. The area under I-5 is not the Duwamish Greenbelt. It's dirt under the fucking freeway. Might as well call it SODO.