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Pike Place Market and the Seattle Waterfront Are Home to Seattle's Largest Homeless Population. Rows and Rows on Tents And Written By Devin English (Photos taken by Devin) Pike Place Market and the Seattle Waterfront are recent community efforts to help areas such as Pike home to Seattle’s largest homeless population. Place that has a large homelessness problem. Lillian Rows and rows on tents and sleeping bags makeup Sherman the executive director of Pike Place neighborhoods of the homeless under the overpass Market Foundation has been working to implement and park benches are occupied with the sleeping programs to aid the homeless in the area. She has homeless. Seattle has recognized its problems and is worked with the group Friends of the Market which ​ ​ taking a more proactive approach to help aid the has raised $9 million to put towards 40 new units of homeless in its city. In the past year the Seattle City low-income senior housing in Pike Place recent Council has created its first committee focused on MarketFront expansion. homelessness.The committee’s purpose is to track While Seattle has had a long history of combatting spending on homelessness services and work with homelessness in the recent years the city has the seattle budget to effectively combat become more adimate about change. Larger budgets homelessness. Seattle spent around $78 million for helping the homeless, the new City Council toward homelessness overall in 2018 with $12 Committee on homelessness and the Pike Place million on permanent supportive housing and $3.6 expansion will help provide the homeless more aid million on transitional housing. There has also been than ever before. The Community up this community depend on helped me realize why Pike’s By: Aolanis Perez each other to succeed. Place has been able to remain a Pike Place is known for its The evidence of this fixture of the Seattle scene for diversity of culture, experience community being dependent on so many years, it’s not because and products/services available. its members success is apparent. of its location or the availability When looking for the most rare From senior centers to urban of rare items, but its community products, there is no other place gardens to preschools to food who happens to accept others, to go to, but Pike Place. From banks to health clinics, Pike to give them an experience the freshest fish to the rarest of Place caters to everyone of all unlike any other in the area and glass figurines, Pike Place is a ages and provides fundamental to care more about its members place that represents its diverse programs to its community. It than anyone else could. and original community. also depends on donations to be Walking into Pike Place, the able to maintain these programs first thing you realize is the available to the public, pig permanent fixture of crowds statues are located across the that decorate the landscape. market to remind patrons to From tourists to locals, Pike donate. Before questioning the Place appeals to everyone. It effectiveness of these programs, seems to be a fixture of unity, the food bank has distributed while at first glance you might 823, 720 lbs of food, according notice the agitated air, you to the Pike Place Market quickly realize that Pike Place Foundation. The Pike Place functions like a clock, its Senior Center has had 51, 574 The Geography of community works together to member visits and the senior Pike Place center has provided assisted make one whole. A fish vendor By: Aolanis Perez is able to buy lemonade from a living care for 71 residents, Somehow, Pike Place seems to nearby stand and the lemonade according to the Pike Place benefit from its location more vendor is able to buy fresh Market Foundation. The reason than the average farmers flowers from the flower why Pike Place is so successful market. Nestled between the and has been able to be known heart of downtown and the as one of America’s oldest Puget Sound, Pike Place attracts public farmer’s markets is tourists each day. Even if you because of its community, who had never heard of Pike Place is able to keep it alive and before, it’s location is so preserve it for future central, that you’ll notice it generations to come. almost immediately! The Personally, I was pretty buildings around it are mostly surprised about all of the skyscrapers full of 9-5 jobs, but services available to the public after those jobs are done for the in Pike Place, that cater to low day, Pike Place still has places income residents as well as the open to cater to the crowd. vendors, the people that make homeless population. It also Homeless Health The Facts Don’t Lie By Jackie Ramos By Devin English Homelessness is grouped into five categories: King County has the 3rd largest homeless basic needs, chronic diseases management, population in the nation. In 2017 11,643 people ​ chronic disease management, chronic pain, were recorded as experiencing homelessness, of dental care, and vision care. course there are many unaccounted for in these numbers. Here is the breakdown of those numbers. Disease Burden: general population had ​ diabetes, asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular ● The most common reasons for homelessness disease and cancer. reported was Losing a job and alcohol or ​ ​ ​ Physical Pain: from harsh sleeping conditions, drug use. ​ arthritis, undiagnosed conditions, wounds and ● 55% of individuals experiencing ​ lack of medication access. homelessness identified as people of color. Emotional Well-being: stress, trauma and ● Those who are chronically homeless, or ​ untreated health conditions. Alcohol, smoking continuously homeless, are more likely to ​ ​ and other harmful substance cause pain. have disabling conditions and substance Vision Care: glasses replacement, vision loss abuse. ​ from diabetes and traumatic brain injury ● Only 32% use health services. ​ ​ Pike Place 101 The Pike Place Market clinic started in the By Devin English 1970’s by a grassroots activist who wanted to Things to do when visiting Pike Place to experience serve low-income people in the downtown its culture: area. As years pass by the clinic serves a more ● Take a picture with Rachel the Piggy Bank ​ diverse adult population, mostly serving ● Stand in front of the Public Market Sign ​ people that are homeless and on the verge of ● Visit the “first” Starbucks ​ being homeless. Then the clinic became part of ● Watch fish fly at the Fish Market ​ the Neighborcare Health. ● Go down to the waterfront ​ ● Ride the ferris wheel ​ Neighborcare Health at Pike Place Market ● Feed the seagulls at Ivars ​ The clinic served over 4,800 patients, out of the ● Contribute to the Gum Wall ​ 4,800 more than half of it are homeless. They ● Try some of Beecher’s Handmade Cheese ​ also provide drug and alcohol counseling ● Have a drink at Rachel’s Ginger Beer ​ which is one of the primary cause of ● Snack on Daily Dozen Doughnuts ​ homelessness. The clinic manages cooking classes in the Atrium Kitchen so people can learn about healthy food choices because most homeless people suffer from type two diabetes due to unhealthy food choices. The clinic nurse helps people to learn to inject insulin, a nutritionist helps them eat well despite the lack of food options and a therapist to help with traumatic experiences. The History attracting individuals of all backgrounds and By Kellen James ethnicities. The shops diversified, including all sorts Seattle was a rough and tumble place at the of handmade products which were unique to the beginning of the 20th century. The city was location. growing at a massive rate as rushers, fisherman, As the market continued to increase in loggers, merchants, and shipbuilders flooded the popularity, proposals for demolishing Pike Place city. From 1890 to 1900 the population of Seattle and reinstalling a new attraction site called “Pike nearly doubled from 42,000 and 80,000 people! Plaza” was brought up. The new Pike would include Farmers would bring their goods to the city with numerous amounts of hotels, office buildings, horse drawn wagons and by ferry from the closer apartments, parking garages and hockey arenas. The islands. The goods would then be sold to idea was later forfeited however, since an initiative middlemen, who sold the goods by commission at was passed that stated Pike Place as a part of a warehouses on the Western Ave. This way, farmers historic prevention zone. However, during the would sometimes make a profit but often lost 1980s, federal welfare reform tried getting money. Farmers tried to raise their prices to ownership of the market. To combat this, the Pike compensate for the loss of cash, but ultimately led Place Market Foundation set up a fundraiser in to an outrage by the citizens. A solution had to be which people could pay $35 in exchange for their found to save the farmers and Thomas Revelle, a name to be inscribed on a tile. The fundraiser was Seattle City Councilman, was the man to fix the hugely successful, raising over 1.6 million dollars. issue. He presented the idea of a public market These tiles can still be seen today on the floors where the citizens could meet one on one with the connecting the different shops throughout Pike farmers and purchase their goods whilst not having Place. As of 2008, the market had a renovation, to leave the city. Revelle’s words still hold true which served to refine and sustain the security of today: “The Market is yours. I dedicate it to you and the infrastructure. ​ may it prove of benefit to you and your children. It is for you to protect, defend, and uphold and it is for Pike Place’s Mascot you to see that those who occupy it treat you fairly.
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