Who’s still at Camp Hope?
During the summer months, some estimate, upward of 600 people lived in the encampment, which began in late 2021 as a protest encampment at Spokane City Hall over the availability of shelter beds.
The encampment relocated to the WSDOT property so it could be eligible for funding through the state’s Right of Way Initiative, which aims to help move residents living in state-owned right-of-ways into other housing.
By last fall, when Jewels Helping Hands, a nonprofit managing Camp Hope, implemented a badging process to ensure unauthorized individuals weren’t entering, there was a firmer count of 467 people. A fence was installed around the property, one
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