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Thursday, April 2, 2020. 10 homeless men who were staying in a motel in Kirkland are moving to a different hotel in Bellevue including James Pounds, left and Kim Larson unloading a van at the Motel in Bellevue. The homeless me are being housed in motels for their safety since they have compromised health and age.

April 2, 2020 at 6:07 pm

To prevent coronavirus spread at shelters, King County will move nearly 400 homeless people into hotels

Next week, King County will move nearly 400 homeless people out of shelters in Bellevue, Kent, Federal Way and Renton to area hotels, and the... Updated 2:26 pm

Gabriela Lopez helps assemble thousands of boxed lunches at Gourmondo in Seattle Tuesday, March 31, 2020.

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March 31, 2020 at 3:57 pm

Local caterer, propped up by Amazon, serves new clientele: public housing residents VIEW

Alissa Leinonen’s catering company in Seattle, Gourmondo, was projecting record sales at the beginning of March. Then, the first deaths of coronavirus in the U.S....

Dr. Aliea Herbert takes the heart rate and screens a Plymouth Housing and DESC resident for the coronavirus on Third Avenue in downtown Seattle on Tuesday, March 24, 2020.

Beginning Tuesday, Swedish Health Services, in partnership with Plymouth Housing and Downtown Emergency Service Center, are screening and testing formerly homeless adults living in single room occupancy housing, shelter or efficiency apartments.
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March 25, 2020 at 12:50 pm

Seattle-area shelters struggle to get clients with virus symptoms into isolation and quarantine, as county motel opens slowly

More than three weeks after the county bought a Kent motel for people who needed to be isolated or quarantined, a number of shelter providers...

People gather on the sidewalk in front of the Union Gospel Mission in downtown Seattle, Friday, March 20, 2020. The Mission serves a large portion of Seattle’s homeless population, and officials fear that controlling the spread of the new coronavirus in groups that lack access to basic hygiene and other supplies will be difficult. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW103 WATW103

March 20, 2020 at 5:51 pm

Social distancing, coronavirus quarantines for homeless people in King County could cost $260M, report says

The federal government has spent billions of dollars in coronavirus-related expenditures, but none of it has been designated to specifically go toward isolation and quarantine...

Nickelsville Northlake tiny house village, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Seattle. In the background is the ship canal bridge. 208150

March 18, 2020 at 9:22 pm

Nickelsville will stay in Northlake tiny house village until June; city agrees, citing coronavirus

The city of Seattle has agreed to keep open a tiny house village in Northlake it's been trying to close for months, in exchange for...

Sonny Phan, who is experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus outbreak, is seen after receiving a takeout lunch at St. John United Lutheran Church, Tuesday, March 17, 2020 in Seattle. 213380

March 18, 2020 at 3:19 pm

Volunteers stay home, meal programs go to-go — and homeless feel the effect of social distancing from coronavirus VIEW

Susan Russell has been selling the street newspaper Real Change for seven years in front of Ken’s Market in Phinney Ridge. She knows the neighborhood....

March 18, 2020 at 6:00 am

After losing contact with homeless plaintiffs, ACLU lawyers ask court to dismiss case against the city of Seattle

After a a federal judge to dismiss its lawsuit on behalf of two homeless people whose constitutional rights, they said, were violated when the city removed...

Seattle firefighters and police officers respond to a fire at a homeless encampment, located between S. Weller St. and S. King St., in the Chinatown-International District Monday, March 16, 2019.

March 16, 2020 at 5:56 pm

Fire in Chinatown International District engulfs homeless camp

The Seattle Fire Department responded to a large fire at a homeless encampment near South Weller Street in the Chinatown International District at around 1:15...

A security guard walks in front of the EconoLodge in Kent where people are being quarantined for the coronavirus. A person who was in quarantine at this location left early Friday morning, March 13, 2020, stole some items from the 7-11 across the street and boarded a bus. It is not known if he is infected with the virus or not.

Kent Mayor Dana Ralph speaks at a press conference in Kent Friday, March 13, 2020, and talks about the fact that the fears of city officials have come true when the Ecnolodge was designated as a quarantine site. At right is Kent Chief of Police Rafael Padilla.
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March 13, 2020 at 11:34 am

Person who left coronavirus quarantine facility in Kent against instructions tests negative for virus WATCH

A person awaiting COVID-19 test results unexpectedly left an emergency quarantine facility at a Kent motel on Friday morning, releasing a wave of anger and...

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks to reporters, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, during a news conference in Seattle. In efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Inslee announced a ban on large public gatherings in three counties in the metro Seattle area. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear) WASB104 WASB104

March 11, 2020 at 10:50 pm

Without ‘social distancing,’ 400 could die from coronavirus in Western Washington by April 7, study suggests

The modeling is apparently one of the factors Gov. Jay Inslee and other local leaders consulted before instituting one of the harshest emergency responses in state...

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