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Homeless Woman Found Living in Trash-Filled Box Truck for Years

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Homelessness
Mental Illness
Street Report

No One Should Be Living This Way

A homeless woman living in a trash filled box truck was rescued in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood.

Outreach group We Heart Seattle forced the city to intervene, exposing this biohazard in the community.

This shocking scene also spotlights King County’s broken affordable housing network.

Critics say it prioritizes chronically homeless drug addicts over people who seek clean and sober housing.

Jonathan Choe

Journalist and Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth and Poverty
Jonathan Choe is a journalist and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty, covering homelessness issues for its Fix Homelessness initiative. Prior to joining Discovery, Choe spent several years as one of the lead reporters at KOMO-TV, consistently the top rated television station in Seattle. His in depth stories on crime and deep dive investigations into the homeless crisis led to measurable results in the community, including changes in public policy. Choe has more than two decades of experience in television news behind the scenes and in front of the camera for ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and Tribune. He has also been nominated and honored with multiple industry awards including an Emmy. Choe spent several years teaching classes on emerging media and entrepreneurship to under privileged youth in inner city Chicago. As an independent journalist, Choe also contributes regularly to the Mill Creek View and Lynnwood Times and has reported on exclusive stories in the past year for Daily Wire and The Postmillennial.