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Seattle authorities luring homeless off the streets with plane tickets, rent payments
By Lauren Botchan
Jul 3, 2018, 4:26 PM ET
It’s been almost three months since homeless tents began to crop up on the streets surrounding Seattle’s famous Space Needle, but now teams of city employees have begun clearing out the encampments near the tourist attraction today, after a homeless man recently attacked a tourist visiting the site.
It wasn't the first such incident this summer.
Earlier in June a family from Arizona was attacked by a man with a rope from one of Seattle's homeless camps as they stepped out of their car which was parked near a large group of tents. The homeless man had a rope and tried to strangle and punch a father after reports said the man confused one of the family members with TV star Ellen Degeneres.
Mayor Jenny Durkan has endorsed numerous plans in the past to help aid the homeless through city funding, starting with the new company ‘head tax’ passed in May which will raise $48 million per year for homeless funding.
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