Tent City 3

03/01/2020

Big Move Saturday March 7th TC3 will be moving to 129th and Martin Luther King Way South Help is needed for TC3 successful move please contact us at 206-448-7889 for more information on how to help TC3 move thank you

11/17/2017

Tent City 3 -> Spu

SHARE/WHEEL's Tent City 3 is a portable self-managed community for up to 100 men and women experiencing homelessness. In 2012 and 2015, Seattle Pacific University hosted TC3.

01/19/2017

When University of Washington students return from winter break, they'll find dozens of homeless people living in a parking lot on the Seattle campus.

12/31/2016

Tent City 3, one of Seattle’s authorized encampment of about 100 people, is coming to the University of Washington-Seattle this winter! TC3 has been authorized to move into UW's Parking Lot W-35 on December 17th and stay until March 18th. Now, we need your help to welcome our new neighbors! WHO WE A...

12/30/2016

The University of Washington is marking some firsts in its involvement with the homeless community. The Seattle campus is hosting a tent camp for the next

12/14/2016

Living at Tent City 3 comes with rules, rules and then a few more rules, and then, there is the required work. Keeping it straight is a task in itself, and important too. If you mess up you get barred from camp. Depending on the issue, bars can be 3-day, 5-day, or longer, including a permanent bar. There is a good chance I will have some of this wrong in explaining it here so help me out TC3 campers if I need correcting or if you want to add something I have left out.

Residents must put in each week (4) securities. A security is a three-hour-shift of helping the elected committee person (EC) at the front desk, as well as patrol in-camp and out in the neighborhood, pick-up litter, and in general be a go-for-this-and-that person. There are two individuals doing security as well as an EC on duty twenty-four/seven.

In addition to getting your securities done for the week, which is no small task, you are also required to do community service, turn in bedding for wash, do litter patrol, and do your part by running for office for the many tasks needing to be managed and run. Elected positions include book-keeping, five elected committee members, kitchen, pantry, fence maintenance, laundry, etc.

This photo was taken at midnight at the front desk with Chris on duty as the EC at the desk, someone on the left signing in, and Tracy on the right, who is also an EC but not on duty.

Queen Anne neighborhood / Rex

12/10/2016

With winter quarter approaching, UW students are packing up and preparing to leave campus for home. North of campus, in Lake City, another group is likewise packing and preparing for

12/02/2016

Watch a video about Tent City 3 and SPU.

12/01/2016

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