October 15, 2024 - Meanwhile, there are still dozens of homeless encampments along WSDOT properties in Olympia and the rest of #ThurstonCounty. The mini camps along Wheeler Ave are expanding. I also talked to several people living here who refuse to go into hotels.

October 15, 2024 - Just minutes away from the Washington State Capitol, lawmakers watch helplessly as Olympia’s homeless crisis along a section of I-5on state highways spirals out of control. Dozens of tents and structures crowd the space alongside the highway at the Sleater-Kinney Road exit. As more and more homeless people move in each day, the encampment spills into the surrounding community. The scene is littered with trash, debris, and needles, which pile up until the wooded space is nearly unrecognizable as a forest.

May 5, 2023 - Martin makes it illegal to criminally prosecute people for being homeless. It does not make sweeps illegal. ... It’s nice to know it’s working, on some level, in a small community like Oly. Still in Portland, and it’s a messy mess fraught with so many moving parts, bad actors and mostly a “head in the sand” population. Once again, Oly is acting like the “ideal city-state.” Cheers! ... They're still around, just pushed deeper in the woods, and not so out in plain sight as much.

July 20, 2025 - Much of that property is occupied by a homeless encampment called the Jungle. Thurston County Assessor's Office Courtesy · The Olympian decided to ask a neighboring business owner about the experience of operating next door to the camp.

January 29, 2026 - 27 Olympia City Council meeting that he wanted to “manage expectations and address rumors” around the city’s intent to close the homeless encampment commonly known as the “Jungle.” · Located in a forested area between Martin Way East ...

July 12, 2025 - Over the years the city and region have addressed a number of homeless encampments on Deschutes Parkway, Wheeler Avenue, Ensign Road, Percival Creek and at Sleater Kinney Road at Interstate 5 with new and available housing — and still more ...

April 11, 2024 - Most of them leave messes of all descriptions and kinds behind on the streets, in the alleys, in and around the 7th Avenue Tunnel, in tiny hidden-away encampments and, of course, in The Jungle, the lawless, partly-city-owned 20-or-so acres that ...

December 1, 2021 - Olympia is the capital of Washington State and the Thurston County seat. Olympia is located at the southern tip of Puget Sound. ... Nestled in the woods just outside of Portland, homeless camps resist the state's attempts to clear them

December 8, 2016 - Olympia local resident Jim Rainwood documents the homeless camps and debris March 3 along the Olympia Woodland Trail. He provides information from his monthly treks to the city code enforcement staff.

The City's housing and homelessness programs aim to make Olympia a safe and healthy place for all to live. We: provide funding for shelters and tiny home villages with supportive onsite services · support sanitation at various encampment sites throughout the community

April 21, 2021 - Now Olympia has begun to wonder if the camps, sanctioned and unsanctioned, are here to stay, like the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression. ... “I see them not so much as ‘unsanctioned encampments’ but ‘informal settlements’ or ‘informal communities,’ which is really normal in countries that have a wealth divide like ours does,” Olympia Councilmember Renata Rollins said during a contentious council meeting in September.

One on Franz Anderson Road will provide 50 tiny homes that will help house individuals from the Washington State right-of-way along Interstate 5. Another will re-use a hotel in Lacey, turning it into 120 units for enhanced shelter until it can ...

March 6, 2023 - That seems to be the modus operandi for the homeless community. It doesn't seem to be to much to ask that garbage be placed in the containers that are provided. If this were not the case, people would be more sympathetic. 2. This encampment is at the headwaters of Woodard Creek. I would have thought that the City of Olympia ...

August 23, 2024 - Olympia officials announced a plan Thursday night to address and remove long-standing homeless encampments in Percival Creek Canyon on the city’s west side.

December 31, 2024 - Olympia needs to find a way to be compassionate to people who have long called Olympia home, while finding ways to NOT be a magnet for the homeless. There are nearly 1 million people who are homeless in America. A significant fraction of that number are unsheltered. This is a national problem that needs to be addressed at the national level, but I'm skeptical than the incoming administration will embrace that view. It is unacceptable for a wealthy country to have people sleeping on the sidewalk, in the woods, and wherever they can find where they can stay alive.

They believe people should not have to live outside; there should be safer options for fellow residents, and pathways to longer-lasting economic opportunity and security. Olympians do not see encampments ...

September 29, 2023 - This is one of several images of homeless encampments along Percival Creek in west Olympia.

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