Workers began dismantling dozens of tents beneath I-705 in Tacoma this Friday morning. Last week, the city declared the encampment an “imminent threat to public safety,” but businesses directly across from it say it was left in place far too long.
On this overcast Friday, the city of Tacoma was dismantling the encampment he believes is the source of their troubles.
When asked where she will sleep Friday night, encampment resident Edilyn Domenden answered, “ have no clue.”“Now with this going on, trying to chase us out of our home is another biggest trauma we’re all going to have to deal with again,” she said. “And I told everybody, ‘Enough is enough.’ How many more moves do we have?”
“I like we were very constrained in terms of overall shelter space in the community,” Griffith said. “We don’t generally see 100% uptake at any particular encampment, but we’d be right about at our shelter capacity.”
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