Pike Place Market’s food bank staff. Pike Place Foundation
Last month Councilmember Debora Juarez said that she avoids Pike Place Market because of “safety issues,” which is certainly news to the thousands of people who wander happily through the stalls day in and day out. And it was particularly surprising to the people for whom Pike Place is more than just a cattywampus shopping mall — it’s a lifeline, a village, and a home.
Take a walk through downtown and you’ll see that something is indeed wrong. According to counts in the last few years, at least around 12,000 of us are without stable housing, ten percent live below the
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