By Travis Fedschun, Fox News
Residents of the mega tent “mansion” homeless encampment near Seattle’s famed Space Needle are bragging about the practicality of their new digs, taunting local politicians: “If you can live on the street and not pay rent, then why would you pay rent?”
The recently constructed camp is located on a small patch of grass on Third Avenue and Broad Street, about a half-block from the Space Needle and surrounded by multi-million dollar high-rise condos.
“It is a form of protest,” Melissa Burns, one of the “mansion” dwellers, told Q13 News. “We’re staking a claim. We’re refusing to cower in our tents.”
Seattle has been under siege by an exploding homeless population since at least 2015, when ex-Mayor Ed Murray declared a “state of emergency” over the crisis. The city has struggled to play catch-up and is now beset with shelters at capacity and illegal encampments, such as the Space Needle “mansion.”
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