The team dedicated to clearing and cleaning illegal homeless camps in Spokane largely disintegrated last year, and the city is struggling to keep up with complaints from residents.
Under a pilot program launched in 2019, the city knit together a “pod” of social workers, police officers and city code enforcement officials to help mitigate camping on public property and direct people who are homeless into social services and housing.
The program was initially met with enough praise to secure a new round of funding in 2020, but for myriad reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the effort has stalled and struggled.
After early success in whittling down the amount of
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