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https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-homeless-crisis-historic-cemetery- overrun-with-drugs-and-prostitution-amid-worsening-problem

Seattle’s homeless crisis has reached such catastrophic levels that a north-side cemetery has become home to drug abuse, drug dealing and prostitution.

Bikur Cholim Cemetery board member and city council candidate Ari Hoffman detailed the desperate effort to fight the epidemic and placed blame for
how bad it has gotten squarely on the local government.

“The city council, city elected officials failed our city. They created a
haven where it is OK for people to die on the streets through drug use,
and to live on the streets people who have a mental illness,” Hoffman told
“Fox & Friends.” “They are not offering treatment solutions, and they are failing us.

OPINION: SEATTLE CREATED ITS HOMELESSNESS CRISIS -- NOW IT IS TRYING TO
MAKE IT WORSE

A homeless encampment is pictured in Seattle, Washington.
A homeless encampment is pictured in Seattle, Washington. (Reuters)

Hoffman added: “Through 2013, the homeless population was relatively
stable. And then what happened after that is it grew... because the
policies they had enabled drug use behavior. It’s just absolutely tragic
that we have people who are living inside of a cemetery, that are dealing
drugs outside of a cemetery, and are running prostitution in a cemetery,
but you see it on the streets all over Seattle.”

Hoffman, who is running for city council, then took aim at “non-performing non-profits” for not doing enough to combat the crisis and revealed what
he believes is the first step to turn back the tide.

“You have to wonder where the money goes, the first thing we need to do is audit where all that money is going. There’s plenty of money, the city’s coffers are full, the money is just not being spent appropriately,” he
told “Fox & Friends.” “According to Seattle’s own numbers, 78 percent of
people want to be off heroin. They don’t want to have addiction problems,
they want treatment. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough services –
there aren’t enough mental health options for them… we need to make sure
those services are available for people on the streets.”

HOMELESSNESS TICKS UP NATIONWIDE, AS WEST COAST STILL LEADS THE COUNTRY

Groundskeepers frequently find trash and other debris at the cemetery. Groundskeepers frequently find trash and other debris at the cemetery.
(Ari Hoffman)

Cemetery groundskeepers have had to deal with cleaning up everything from
used needles to human feces, according to a representative.
Cemetery groundskeepers have had to deal with cleaning up everything from
used needles to human feces, according to a representative. (Ari Hoffman)

Hoffman went on to paint a dire picture of the scene at the historic Bikur Cholim Cemetery.

“They find needles, they find drugs, they find human feces all over the
place and they have to clean it all up,” he said. “Our grounds-crew has
been pricked by needles before, they’ve been assaulted by people they
found living there, they’ve found people on the ground overdosed thinking
they were dead.”

Federal data released in 2018 found Washington state’s homeless population
had risen more than any other state in the country.

Seattle, King County, had a homeless population of 12,112 -- the third
highest in the country behind Los Angeles and New York City.



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