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Good news everyone!
Seattle is on their way to solving the homelessness crisis
Seattle deaths are up 20% from last year among its burgeoning homeless population, and last year was already **60% higher than any year on record for deaths in Seattle**
(According to the math, that means so far this year, the rate of homeless deaths is 92% higher than any year on record if you exclude last year)
In fact, Seattle just set a record: oldest hobo to die (this year) from mixing meth and fentanyl.
The west African immigrant, wearing known for wearing smoove suits and having a classy air about him, died at the ripe old age of 71 years old behind Starbucks world HQ
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/in-seattle-fentanyls-tentacles-reach-all-the-way-up-to-seniors/
Bennie Koffa stood out in the small but growing world of Seattle homelessness. For one thing, the immigrant from West Africa always wore a suit, even in the encampments.
But when he died, in a makeshift camp on the side of an industrial road near the Starbucks headquarters in Sodo, he attracted notice for a different reason.
Koffa was 71. The medical examiner listed the cause of his death as “acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and methamphetamine.”
Koffa is the oldest homeless person to die on the streets so far this year in Seattle. That even senior citizens are falling to the scourge of fentanyl reflects the extraordinary sweep of what that drug is doing to parts of the Seattle community.
It’s setting up to be a record grim year for people on the streets. According to the medical examiner, 218 people have died while living outside in Seattle and across King County, through the end of July. That pace is roughly 20% ahead of last year, which was by far the worst year on record, with a 60% higher death toll for homeless people than any previous year.
The office began recording homeless deaths in 2003
Seattle is on their way to solving the homelessness crisis
Seattle deaths are up 20% from last year among its burgeoning homeless population, and last year was already **60% higher than any year on record for deaths in Seattle**
(According to the math, that means so far this year, the rate of homeless deaths is 92% higher than any year on record if you exclude last year)
In fact, Seattle just set a record: oldest hobo to die (this year) from mixing meth and fentanyl.
The west African immigrant, wearing known for wearing smoove suits and having a classy air about him, died at the ripe old age of 71 years old behind Starbucks world HQ
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/in-seattle-fentanyls-tentacles-reach-all-the-way-up-to-seniors/
Bennie Koffa stood out in the small but growing world of Seattle homelessness. For one thing, the immigrant from West Africa always wore a suit, even in the encampments.
But when he died, in a makeshift camp on the side of an industrial road near the Starbucks headquarters in Sodo, he attracted notice for a different reason.
Koffa was 71. The medical examiner listed the cause of his death as “acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and methamphetamine.”
Koffa is the oldest homeless person to die on the streets so far this year in Seattle. That even senior citizens are falling to the scourge of fentanyl reflects the extraordinary sweep of what that drug is doing to parts of the Seattle community.
It’s setting up to be a record grim year for people on the streets. According to the medical examiner, 218 people have died while living outside in Seattle and across King County, through the end of July. That pace is roughly 20% ahead of last year, which was by far the worst year on record, with a 60% higher death toll for homeless people than any previous year.
The office began recording homeless deaths in 2003
