Five months and $100,000 later, Seattle City Council asks: Where are the street sinks?
The $100,000 Seattle City Council allocated to build 63 sinks for homeless people on the street, with the intention of being fast-tracked during the pandemic,...
Washington state officials propose toolkit to help people with mental health, addiction issues find housing
State officials are looking to better planning to help people leaving mental health and drug treatment facilities stay out of homelessness. A large portion of...
Auburn’s proposal to change civil fee to criminal charge is not ‘criminalizing homelessness,’ say officials
Amid a surge of people living in tents and in the open in King County during the pandemic, the Auburn City Council will vote Monday...
Johnson & Johnson suspension forces homeless nonprofits to rethink vaccine plan for people living outdoors
While King County homeless vaccination clinics are continuing as planned this week, the statewide Johnson & Johnson pause complicates immunizing homeless people outside of the...
Washington state pauses use of Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine as feds review rare clotting cases
Washington state halted use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine after federal agencies called for a pause in its administration, citing six incidents of...
Seattle, King County to receive $26 million in federal COVID relief funds to combat homelessness
Part of $5 billion dedicated to local governments to be used for homelessness spending, the money will expire in 2030, giving local governments the chance...
King County homeless deaths point to a difficult pandemic winter for people living outside
A spike in deaths of homeless people in December, followed by an unusually high number of weather-related deaths at the start of 2021, show the...