Greenwood homeless camp grows, as does neighbors’ frustration

Longtime residents living near the corner of 1st Avenue Northwest and North 87th Street in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood say the camp has been located at that corner since at least 2016. It has been cleared away and returned more times than neighbors say they can count. They don’t like it at all.

“It’s about the garbage, the needles, the human waste. They are destroying the property,” resident Diane Knezovich said.

On any given day or night, dozens of the unhoused call the corner home.

Just driving down the street can be a problem. A group of people were halfway across the road, many of them taking and selling drugs.

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