Fix the Aurora Corridor
Not one intersection — the corridor, the camps in between, and nodes like 12th & Jackson
A path out—
of addiction.
of homelessness.
of hopelessness.
Fellow Washingtonians,
This is not just one bad corner. It is the Aurora corridor — from the south stretches of Aurora Avenue up through Aurora and Northgate Way, with addiction camps and dealing storefronts all along the way. The same death-cycle market shows up at nodes across the city, including places like 12th and Jackson. Different map pins. Same system: dealers set up, users cluster, tents become the storefront, crime follows.
Open prostitution, drug dealing, gang activity, and shootings are not separate from the tents. The camps are the market. Families and businesses pay the spillover while the city keeps renaming the problem.
One movie says “house them first, services optional.” Another says “get clean before you get a key.” Both leave people dying — one indoors with a kit, one outside waiting for permission. The missing film is the only one that isn’t a eulogy: a real path out — of addiction, of homelessness, of hopelessness.
That means we do not pretend compassion without duty is kindness. We do not treat a foil kit and a pallet as an exit. We name what is happening on this corridor — and at the other open markets like it — then we fund the way out.
My Plan for the Corridor — Accountability with a Path
Name the Market
Treat open dealing, prostitution networks, and gang violence along Aurora — and at nodes like 12th & Jackson — as a market to shut, not scenery to manage. Focused enforcement and prosecution against the people who supply the death cycle.
Clear Camps Once an Offer Is Real
Remove the storefronts that recruit the next wave — the camps in between the big intersections as well as the famous corners. A camping rule after a documented offer of shelter is not cruelty. Leaving the market open and calling it care is.
Roof Plus Rules
Reject the false binary. Housing without sobriety warehouses addiction. Treatment with nowhere to go leaves people in the rain. Do both: low-barrier beds so “nowhere to go” dies, and sobriety and engagement as the price of longer-term housing.
Fund the Exit
Treatment capacity, medication when it works, recovery housing that is not a shooting gallery. Stop blank checks for programs that grow the invoice while the body count climbs. Name the market. Fund the exit.
A path out—
of addiction.
of homelessness.
of hopelessness.
Name the market. Fund the exit.
Stop recycling our problems.
Vote for an EXIT.
Together, we can make Washington golden.
— Jillian England
Candidate for Washington State Senate, Legislative District 36