What are your big questions about homelessness? The Seattle Times wants to know
The Seattle Times' Project Homeless is asking readers and community members to share their unanswered questions around homelessness to help shape our reporting.
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Seattle street barber gives out more than just free haircuts VIEW
Randy Miller’s hair-cutting work, BetheBlessing206, doesn’t cost anything, because his clientele don't have much. Yet he treats it like a professional operation.
Watch a discussion on Seattle’s history of homelessness WATCH
To learn more about Seattle's current homelessness crisis and how we got here, watch a discussion featuring local author and nurse practitioner Josephine Ensign.
History shows same homelessness strategies tried over and over, according to ‘Skid Road’ WATCH
In her book, local author Josephine Ensign tracks Seattle and King County’s history of homelessness and health care from the mid-1800s to the present day.
Seattleites may vote on whether to tackle homelessness by creating 'social housing'
The effort is known as "social housing. It's essentially publicly owned housing that is insulated from private market forces and designed to be permanently affordable.
U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission’s anti-LGBTQ+ hiring policies case
The Seattle-based Christian organization asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide a case after the Washington Supreme Court ruled against it.
As nonprofits struggle, a big WA food bank provider boosts wages to $25 an hour
Food Lifeline recently increased its minimum wage to $25 an hour. The decision comes at a time when other nonprofits face workforce fatigue, high turnover.
Where to escape from cold weather in King County
With freezing temperatures expected to continue, Seattle and other King County cities are opening cold-weather shelters for people living outside.