Editorial_HomelessCamp
Howard Stone (right), 58, and Karisa Cak-Wigen, 24, sit and smoke a cigarette together on June 29 before Stone left the Lowell Snohomish River Road encampment where he typically spends the night to look at an apartment in downtown Everett that Snohomish County Sheriff’s deputies and social workers had found for him. Stone later declined the apartment saying he didn’t feel as safe there as he does at the Lowell encampment where he and a few others have permission from the property owner to stay.