[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ft. Lawton (WA) homeless housing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Homeless housing plans at Fort Lawton ruffle Magnolia residents

By Sanjay Bhatt
Seattle Times (WA)
April 26, 2008

Many residents in Seattle's affluent Magnolia neighborhood are fuming 
over plans to house homeless people near Discovery Park at 
soon-to-be-closed Fort Lawton.

At one community meeting, some residents wondered whether homeless 
housing at the fort would attract wife-beaters, sex offenders and crack 
addicts. They rolled their eyes when city officials asserted that such 
housing increases property values. They worried about the impact on 
schools and scoffed at the idea of homeless people shopping at the 
closest grocery — which sells pheasant-and-rosemary pâté for $9.99 and 
ground coffee for up to $18 a pound.

"We're the ones who live here, and we want to have a nice, safe 
neighborhood to live in," Donald Raz, a King County deputy prosecutor 
and Magnolia resident, said later.

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For the entire article, see
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004374934_ftlawton26m.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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