On his way out the door last month, former Spokane Neighborhood, Housing and Human Services Director John Hall sent 27 pages of recommendations to the Mayor’s office. He also raised concerns about tens of millions of unspent housing dollars.
While the city threatens legal action or a sweep of the encampment, there’s no clear sense of where people are expected to end up were the state or city to remove them from the lot off of I-90.
As long as shelters in Spokane have empty beds, the city can remove encampments and issue citations to people sitting, lying and camping on public land.
This article builds on our coverage of Camp Hope and the cooling shelter erected in late July during the six-day heatwave. Here, we dive deeper into how city, state and local nonprofits responded to the heat emergency. For background on this issue check out this article.
HEAT WAVE DAY 6 | While there’s been plenty said and written about Julie Garcia, founder of Jewels Helping Hands, she tunes it out. Her focus is on Camp Hope.
HEAT WAVE DAY 5 | With temperatures expected to hit 104 degrees this weekend, the most pressing supply needs for Camp Hope are ice, Gatorade, pet food, roller gauze and gauze pads.
