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Seattle homeless couple gets city-paid plane tickets to leave town
SEATTLE (KOMO) - San Francisco and Portland openly admit to buying bus tickets to send their homeless out of town. But Seattle has been very quiet about it.
This week, a homeless couple received plane tickets to get off the streets of Seattle.
"People feel that I have some obligation to justify myself to them and I really don't," homeless camper Melissa Burns told KOMO News.
Burns camped on 3rd Avenue, near the Space Needle, for 81 days in the so-called "homeless mansion" and refused city offers of shelter and services.
"We can provide something better for ourselves at this point than the city can provide us," said Burns.
But, the city did provide something better: two plane tickets for her and her husband to relocate to Kansas - at the city's expense. They left Wednesday.
This week, a homeless couple received plane tickets to get off the streets of Seattle.
"People feel that I have some obligation to justify myself to them and I really don't," homeless camper Melissa Burns told KOMO News.
Burns camped on 3rd Avenue, near the Space Needle, for 81 days in the so-called "homeless mansion" and refused city offers of shelter and services.
"We can provide something better for ourselves at this point than the city can provide us," said Burns.
But, the city did provide something better: two plane tickets for her and her husband to relocate to Kansas - at the city's expense. They left Wednesday.