Garcia said that her organization, in cooperation with state agencies and other nonprofits, has established a system and trust among those who live in the encampment.
Clearing Camp Hope won’t solve the issue of homelessness in Spokane, she said, as unhoused people live in different parts of Spokane, not just at Camp Hope.
She said she plans to continue running the camp unless she is forced to do otherwise.
“We’re continuing to move forward the same way we were,” she said.
Advocates for the unhoused believe the public political battle over Camp Hope is a distraction from a clear reality: relative inaction from city and county officials when they had
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