1) The Breast Cancer 3-Day bought 3,000 pink tents for use in the 3-Day Walk for the Cure to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation; 2) After the 3-Day Walk for the Cure, The 3-Day donated the 3,000 tents to the Girl Scouts for their annual Jamboree; 3) After the Jamboree, the Girl Scouts called a number of nonprofits asking each, "Would you like 200 tents?" SKCCH (Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness) and RCOP (Real Change Organizing Project) working together picked up 200 tents; 4) SKCCH & RCOP donated 150 tents to Nickelsville and kept 50 for homeless people who have their belongings destroyed in encampment sweeps.

During the city's sweep of Nickelsville, 80 tents were moved to the state-owned parking lot and 70 tents were confiscated by the city. Handouts said they could be reclaimed at the SDOT (Seattle Department of Transportation) storage facility in SODO. Some witnesses reported seeing the tents broken and thrown away instead. Nobody has yet reported attempting to retrieve their tent.

IF the city did destroy 70 tents, and IF those tents cost $50 each to replace, that's another $3,500 the city has wasted in the process of NOT sheltering people.

It's more complicated than I thought. The feds deeded the property to the city on the condition that the city lease 20 acres of it to the United Indians of All Tribes; so the lease IS with the city. It started in 1974. It requires the UIATF to abide by city land use codes. http://www.seattle.gov/council/licata/up/up55.htm...

It is still questionable whether Nickelsville is automagically in violation of land use codes just 'cause the Mayor sez so. In 2001, King County Superior Court ruled that the city was wrong in denying Tent City 3 a permit to stay at El Centro de la Raza. (The city had claimed that Tent City was not in "the spirit of the Land Use Code.") If the UIATF claims the right to host Nickelsville, and take the city to court, the city is definitely going to lose in the court of public opinion, and very possibly will lose in court of law also.

The Mayor and the Director need to check their facts. The 20 acres that Daybreak Star is on are leased from the federal government, not from the city. Their 99-year lease started in 1972. http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/FtLawton_takeo...