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Kellie Sevier and Tommi Tate visit the place where their daughter Sabrina Tate called home – a recreational vehicle parked in the City of Seattle’s last sanctioned lot for vehicle dwellers in the Sodo neighborhood of Seattle Wednesday April 11, 2018. Sabrina, 27, died there in her RV several days prior. Her cause of death is still being investigated, but but the county medical examiner’s office told Sevier and Tate that they believe she died from an infection of the legs, related to chronic drug use. “I just realize, this is not a place anybody should want their daughter, or their son,” said Tate.

April 14, 2018 at 6:00 am

No place for a daughter: Parents of homeless woman who died in RV speak out about Seattle ‘safe zone’ WATCH

Sabrina Tate died April 5 in Seattle’s last safe zone for people whose home is their vehicles. It was only after her death that her...

Matt Irvin, 36, said that he has been staying in the safe zone for about three weeks. “They told me you can’t park here, that you need a permit,” he said, of the outreach worker who first approached him. “They told me, well, I can’t get one, that they’re shutting down the program.” Nine permitted recreational vehicles remain with no new permits being issued in the City of Seattle’s last safe parking zone at Second Avenue South and South Spokane Street in the Sodo neighborhood.

Wednesday April 4, 2018.

April 10, 2018 at 6:00 am

Seattle still doesn’t know what to do with thousands of people living in vehicles WATCH

Seattle’s plan to open a series of sanctioned parking lots failed, leaving just one site in Sodo with a handful of RVs. Now, people are...

Catherine Lester, Seattle’s human services director, is leaving in May. Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times, 2016)

March 16, 2018 at 2:06 pm

Seattle human-services director Catherine Lester, who oversaw homelessness response, is stepping down

Catherine Lester, one of the chief architects of Seattle’s response to the region’s homelessness crisis, is stepping down, becoming the second high-level person involved in...

March 15, 2018 at 5:24 pm

Rare infectious diseases are rising at an ‘alarming’ rate in Seattle’s homeless population, concerning health officials

Outbreaks of infectious disease among King County homeless people concern King County public health officials.

Steven Long won a major victory for homeless people living in their vehicles. Long successfully appealed a judge’s ruling that the city was within its rights to tow his truck in November 2016 even though he was using it as a home. The seat in the cab of this 1982 Chevy pickup is where he sleeps. The truck has 487,000 miles on it.

(This truck is not the one impounded. That was a 2000 GMC)

Saturday March 3, 2018

March 7, 2018 at 8:40 pm

Seattle will appeal ruling that man living inside his truck should not have had to pay high fines after vehicle was towed

It’s a case with potential far-reaching implications for the thousands of people living in their vehicles across the county, and those residents and business owners...

March 3, 2018 at 7:08 pm

Judge rules Seattle homeless man’s truck is a home

Steven Long’s truck was towed after he didn’t move it after 72 hours. He sued the city, and his victory on Friday could have broad...

Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. Patrons of the Urban Rest Stop in the South Lake Union area wait for their cloths to dry at the Rest Stop that is facing cuts in hours and services.

February 21, 2018 at 6:00 am

$1 million for hygiene services for Seattle homeless people restored

The money will come from the sale of city property in South Lake Union, the proceeds of which will also go toward a plan by...

The Navigation Team has had to slow down its cleanup of homeless encampments because there aren’t enough desirable shelter spaces for people to transition to. One encampment that the team has never cleaned up is Jose Rizal Park. The camp is near the intersection of 90 and I-5. Photographed Wednesday, February 14, 2018. 205259

February 16, 2018 at 6:00 am

Cleanup of Seattle’s homeless camps slows as shelter beds fill up

City rules governing unsanctioned homeless camp cleanups require offers of shelter. But the high-demand shelters are full, and clean ups have slowed down.

Bridgette Davis during a meeting of Mother Nation, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, in Seattle, which is a cultural and advocacy organization that works with Native American women, including women who are in danger of becoming homeless or have experienced/are currently experiencing homelessness. 204967

February 8, 2018 at 11:00 am

Native Americans, Seattle’s original residents, are homeless at highest rate WATCH

Native Americans and Alaskan Natives are less than 1 percent of King County’s population but nearly 6 percent of its homeless population. The city is...

Volunteer Matias Valenzuela, Director of the Office of Equity and Social Justice for King County, and team leader Greg Jensen, the Director of Administrative Services for the Downtown Emergency Service Center, count two homeless people sleeping under a ramp in the SoDo area during the annual One Night Count on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016.

January 25, 2018 at 6:00 am

King County is about to count its homeless population. They will probably get it wrong.

Early Friday, hundreds of volunteers will fan out across King County streets, forests, parks and well-hidden places to determine how many people are experiencing homelessness...