In summer 2019, City of Seattle officials warned employees that they may have been exposed to toxic chemical compounds, including PCBs, during a cleanup of a Sodo homeless encampment. Although many of the former campers have had several points of contact with the city government during other encampment clearings, reporters recently found that residents say they were never told about the toxic contamination during these interactions, despite the city government’s claim that they were reaching out to affected individuals. “We find with increasing displacement of people from where they’re camping, it’s harder to connect them to resources like treatment and housing opportunity,” said Chloe Gale, codirector of REACH, the city’s contracted outreach partner.