Aurora Commons

{{Short description|Charity in Seattle, Washington}}

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| location = 8914 Aurora Avenue North, Seattle

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| region = Licton Springs, North Seattle

| services = Homeless drop-in center

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| affiliations = Christian Reformed Church in North America

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Aurora Commons is a drop-in center for homeless people in Seattle. It was co-founded in 2011 by Lisa Etter Carlson.{{cite news|title=Homeless shelter expands in Seattle as freeze settles in|date=February 5, 2019|newspaper=The Seattle Times|author1=Vianna Davila |author2=Vernal Coleman |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/homeless-shelter-expands-in-seattle-as-freeze-settles-in/}}{{cite news|publisher=KUOW|location=Seattle|title='It really feels like a tipping point.' North Seattle on edge after shooting of homeless man|author=Kate Walters|date=November 8, 2018|url=https://kuow.org/stories/it-really-feels-like-a-tipping-point-neighbors-are-on-edge-after-shooting-of-homeless-man-in-north-seattle}} It has been described as "a small oasis in the heart of Seattle's forgotten desert", Aurora Avenue North – an area of the city where sex workers and homeless frequently find patrons, heroin and cheap motels; and which had no supermarket, bank, community center, nor bookstore, and no Seattle City Council representation until 2015.{{cite news|work=Crosscut.com|date=March 23, 2017|title=On Aurora Avenue: 'Radical hospitality'|author=Tess Riski|url=http://features.crosscut.com/aurora-avenue-commons-radical-hospitality}}{{cite news|title=Seattle's Aurora stretch is frozen in time, but voters are turning up the heat on change|date=January 8, 2018|newspaper=The Seattle Times|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattles-aurora-stretch-is-frozen-in-time-but-voters-are-turning-up-the-heat-on-change/}} The space is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church across the street.{{cite web|author=Chris Meehan|title=Awakening to the Needs in Seattle|date=December 13, 2017|publisher=Christian Reformed Church in North America|website=official website|url=https://www.crcna.org/news-and-views/awakening-needs-seattle}} Local businesses have protested the center's needle exchange program.{{cite news|title=Needle exchange gets prickly in Greenwood|date=July 23, 2013|author=Steve Kiggins|publisher=KCPQ|location=Tacoma|url=https://q13fox.com/2013/07/23/needle-exchange-gets-prickly-in-greenwood/}} Aurora Commons also provides condoms and other services for sex workers.{{cite news|title=In the Wake of FOSTA and SESTA, Local Organization SNAPS Is Ramping Up Its Efforts to Help Seattle Sex Workers|author=Sophia Stephens |date=June 12, 2018|newspaper=The Stranger|location=Seattle|url=https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/12/27454304/in-the-wake-of-fosta-and-sesta-local-organization-snaps-is-ramping-up-its-efforts-to-help-seattle-sex-workers}}