http://www.newscloud.com/section/nickels Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:03:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us http://www.newscloud.com/read/Local_UW_students_come_clean_with_traveling_shower_for_homeless Efforts like the "traveling shower" designed and built by University of Washington architecture graduate students, on display at the Sustainable Ballard Festival Saturday, are a step in the right direction, he said. "I don't consider anything a drop in the bucket," he said. "I actually find it refreshing and creative that groups are trying to find solutions like that."

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Police_sweep_through_Nickelsville_make_arrests Seattle police today arrested 22 people for trespassing during an hourlong, peaceful sweep of Nickelsville, the illegal homeless camp that was set up on city property in the predawn hours of Monday.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/150_tents_for_homeless_spring_up_on_industrial_land_owned_by_Seattle At the entrance of the makeshift grassy camp near West Marginal Way Southwest and Highland Park Way Southwest, an industrial area with the continual sound of heavy rigs, somebody had planted a wooden sign with burned-on letters: "NICKELSVILLE." This was a reference to the belief by advocates for the homeless that Mayor Greg Nickels is not exactly their friend.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Crosscut_Seattle_The_greening_of_Greg_Nickels "If the federal government is not going to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol," he said in his State of the City speech, "why can't we just do it at the local level?" Since then, 850 cities have signed onto Nickels's brainchild, the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. They've pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The mayor's bold gesture inspired hundreds of other city, state, and regional climate change initiatives.

]]> http://www.newscloud.com/read/Welcome_to_Nickelsville_Seattle_Homeless_Take_on_Mayor_s_Image Though it took root this summer, the seed for Nickelsville was planted years ago with the creation of the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. The idea, as the name suggests, is to end homelessness by building more permanent low-income housing, and to lead people toward self-sufficiency by weaning them (and cities) off stopgap measures like shelters. It's an idea that Nickels has bought into-and one that is arguably not working.

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