Aurora Commons is a

drop-in center ''Drop-In'' was a Canadian television series for youth broadcast on CBC Television from 28 September 1970 to 1974. Various hosts were featured throughout the course of the series to present a variety of topics. The show was broadcast three time ...

for homeless people in Seattle. It was co-founded in 2011 by Lisa Etter Carlson. It has been described as "a small oasis in the heart of Seattle's forgotten desert",

Aurora Avenue North State Route 99 (SR 99), also known as the Pacific Highway, is a state highway in the Seattle metropolitan area, part of the U.S. state of Washington. It runs from Fife to Everett, passing through the cities of Federal Way, SeaTa ...

– 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. The space is affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church across the street. Local businesses have protested the center's

needle exchange program A needle and syringe programme (NSP), also known as needle exchange program (NEP), is a social service that allows injection drug users (IDUs) to obtain clean and unused hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. It i ...

. Aurora Commons also provides condoms and other services for sex workers.

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* 2011 establishments in Washington (state) Buildings and structures in Seattle Homeless shelters in the United States {{Washington-struct-stub