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Tent City 4 featured in Homeless Article in Sacramento
via Sacramento Bee Slideshow SEATTLE – This winter, 68 homeless men and women settled into an organized camp in a leafy hillside neighborhood of this city. The flaps of their colorful tents were mere feet from five-bedroom homes worth more than $700,000. Not far away, another camp set up in and around an old city [...]
Tent City 4 Returning to Redmond?
via Redmond Reporter by Bill Christianson, Editor Bruce Thomas and his group of homeless “myth busters” are returning to Redmond, pending city approval. Thomas, a homeless man and camp advisor for Tent City 4, along with Dave Rogerson, pastor at St. Jude Catholic Church on Education Hill, filed for a temporary-use permit with the City of [...]
Why I Stay At Tent City 4
via Kirkland KOMO News “This is my house,” Bruce Thomas says while gesturing at a tent at the Tent City 4 homeless encampment on Thursday. “I’ve been homeless about 10 years. Lost my wife and children to a drunk driver.” The former D.C. lobbyist who once owned a waterfront home and sailboat now stays here [...]
The Issaquah Press honored for bringing visibility to Tent City 4
Tent City 4 wishes to congratulate The Issaquah Press for their recent recognition for community service contributions. The Issaquah Press has received statewide recognition for its community service efforts to raise awareness about the Tent City 4 homeless encampment in Issaquah. The newspaper documented the camp from the relocation announcement in November 2009 to the [...]
Making visible the invisible at Tent City 4
Via The Woodinville Weekly WRITTEN BY DEBORAH STONE Men and women who are homeless come from a wide range of backgrounds and from multiple corners of society. Stereotypical images of this population often suggest alcoholic, drug-addicted, ragged individuals from the lowest socio-economic strata. It may surprise many, however, to learn that among today’s homeless are [...]
Smooth sailing for church and Tent City 4, but not all are happy
WRITTEN BY DON MANN via The Woodinville Weekly Eighty-three Tent City 4 residents have been on the grounds of Bear Creek United Methodist Church for a week now — the first-ever stay at the Woodinville church for the roving Eastside homeless encampment — and spokespersons from both organizations say things are going very well. “It’s [...]
11 Seattle homeless shelters may close soon
This impacts the 11 indoor shelters but also impacts TC3 and TC4 with the loss of bus tickets. Sometime this week funding for bus tickets will run out and campers will stop receiving bus tickets. By Lauren C. Williams Seattle Times staff reporter Via Seattle Times Hundreds more homeless people in Seattle could be sleeping [...]
BCUMC Tent City 4 Informational Meeting Receives Mixed Responses
via The Woodinville Weekly WRITTEN BY DON MANN Approximately 150 concerned citizens filled the Bear Creek United Methodist Church last Wednesday for an informational meeting about the arrival of Tent City 4 to church grounds beginning July 24. Tent City 4 is a self-governed homeless encampment of not more than 100 residents that resides by [...]
Voice of the homeless in Tent City 4
By Robin via Daily KOS In 2007, an estimated 1% in the US were homeless, and 39% of those people were children. While the 2010 census project is working hard to count the homeless, we can likely presume that the numbers are worse. There was a 32% jump in foreclosures between April 2008 and April [...]
Tent City 4 Move in Day at LWUMC Kirkland
Via:PNWLocalnews.com Focus Northwest: Visual stories from the Eastside and the Pacific Northwest by Chad Coleman Tent City 4 moved to a new home at Lake Washington United Methodist Church in Kirkland over the weekend and I was out to see the encampment on Monday. Above, residents repair a fence boundary around the camp. To get the [...]
