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These community groups condemn Bellingham homeless camp removal, demand no more 'sweeps' The Bellingham Herald 2/5/2021 Denver Pratt, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) Feb. 5—More than a dozen local community organizations have come together to condemn the way the city of Bellingham handled the removal of a downtown homeless tent encampment late last week. The group has also asked that the city create a permanent policy banning homeless encampment clean-ups and offer residents of the previous downtown camp services and options for temporary and permanent housing. T...

The city of Bellingham has started clearing a camp outside City Hall where people without permanent shelter had set up tents and were living since mid-November to protest the lack of housing in the area.

Washington protesters break into city hall over homeless encampment Updated Jan 23, 2021; Posted Jan 23, 2021 People have been living on the lawn of Bellingham City Hall since November to protest the lack of shelter in the area.City of Bellingham Facebook Share BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Protesters and advocates for dozens of people living in a temporary tent encampment on the lawn of Bellingham City Hall on Friday created a human barrier and some later broke into the building in an effort to stop city officials from trying to clean up the site. The city notified campers earlier this week that t...