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    Community members gather outside city hall during a Women in Black candlelight solstice vigil remembering the homeless who died in the 2022, outside of Seattle City Hall on Dec. 21, 2022.
    May 21, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Fentanyl has devastated King County’s homeless population, and the toll is getting worse VIEW

    Though homeless people make up around 1% of King County's population, they make up 20% of the overdose deaths this year.

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    A woman died after a hit-and-run late Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in the 400 block of Queen Anne Avenue North in Seattle.
    May 18, 2023 at 6:51 am

    Pedestrian dies in hit-and-run in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood

    Police are looking for the car involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash late Wednesday near Climate Pledge Arena in Uptown.

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    Joseph Atwood heads to his tent at the encampment off Dexter Avenue North near Mercer Street.
  About living on the street he says “it’s every man for himself.”   He’s concerned about the rats that come into his tent at night.


Living on the street, discussing the challenges to not having permanent shelter.

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    May 18, 2023 at 6:00 am

    White House announces initiative to reduce homelessness in Seattle

    The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness will partner with Seattle and five other cities and states: California, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and the Phoenix metropolitan...

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    Selena Walley, 27, a mother who lives at a tiny house village in Seattle, gets a hug in the sun from her middle daugher, La’Riah, 6, as her oldest, Savannah, 8, goes to check out the bikes, Monday, May 8, 2023.
    May 14, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Here’s how 2 Seattle women found their strength while homeless VIEW

    Two mothers discuss how having kids while homeless can help give purpose, strength and hope — even as housing instability makes a hard job even...

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    Jessica Llamas, a McKinney-Vento student navigator with North Thurston Public Schools, provides a gas and food gift card to a student and his parent at the Family & Youth Resource Center in Olympia, Wash. Friday, Aug. 12, 2022
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    May 1, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Student, family homelessness funding doubles in state budget

    An effective statewide grant funding program to support homeless students saw a large increase in the recently passed two-year Washington budget.

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    Light-rail zips past the Wayfarer Apartments under construction as building continues at Yesler Terrace, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023 in Seattle. More market-rate housing has developed around Yesler Terrace, which is Washington State’s first public housing development, opening in the 1940s; and at the time it became the first racially integrated public housing development in the United States.
    April 27, 2023 at 7:00 am

    Seattle social housing developer receives WA cash to fire up the engines

    State lawmakers set aside $200,000 to help Seattle's new social housing developer get off the ground. But questions remain about long-term cost and when it...

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    Community-donated clothes, quilts, school and hygiene supplies are offered to students and families part of North Thurston Public Schools at the Family & Youth Resource Center in Olympia, Wash. 221151
    April 19, 2023 at 7:00 am

    Lawmakers, advocates call for more WA student homelessness funding

    Advocates are asking for lawmakers to increase the annual spending allocated for two funds that support families and young people experiencing homelessness.

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    Leisa Johnson is reflected off the glass of a portrait of her and her kids with her sister, Angelia Johnson, at her home in Kent on Jan 19, 2023. The portrait was a Christmas present from Johnson’s brother’s girlfriend — she described the portrait had Angelia’s likeness photoshopped into the image with her and her kids.
    April 16, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Fentanyl kills at least 2 King County people a day. Read their stories

    Fentanyl’s reach has extended to nearly every corner of King County, with signs both visible, among downtown denizens slumped over on sidewalks, and discreet, hidden...

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    After many homeless people who were living in tents outside of the Burien Library were told they would have to be out by noontime on Friday, March 31, 2023, they picked up their tents and moved them a block away.  The city of Burien is clearing a large homeless encampment next to the Burien Library and all of the people living there were told they had to move. 223443
    April 7, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Burien faces hard choices around homeless encampment VIEW

    A homeless encampment in downtown Burien is raising a host of new questions for the small South King County city to solve with few resources.

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    Street sinks for homeless people in front of University Heights Center on The Ave.

 A “Seattle Street Sink” has a utility sink, a soap dispenser, a planter box and a garden hose. The water drains into the planter box, which acts like a rain garden.
    March 31, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Seattle set aside $100k for street sinks. Two years later, where are they?

    In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, Seattle allocated $100,000 to quickly install street sinks for homeless residents. So why aren't they installed?

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