While homelessness across the United States has fallen ten percent in the last decade, the situation on the west coast is very different with areas such as California and Washington State seeing huge increases in property prices. In Seattle homelessness has increased by almost fifty percent in the last six years, and authorities are struggling to cope.
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Where we’re at: Far apart on Seattle’s drug crisis
We Heart Seattle is pilloried by some homeless activists as too focused on cleaning encampments ... countered Deaunte Damper, a community activist with VOCAL-WA. “That’s the problem I’m focusing on,” ...
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Homelessness authority shuttering Partnership for Zero pilot program in Seattle
The King County Regional Homelessness Authority is winding down its pilot program that focused resources on getting homeless people in the downtown Seattle area into shelters.
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Seattle pulls the plug on initiative to end homelessness two years after it began
Some of the richest people in America call Seattle home. So do some of the poorest. Men, women, and children forced to sleep on the streets because of rising house prices, addiction, or mental health ...
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Initiative to end homelessness in Seattle ends less than 2 years after its created
An initiative to end homelessness in downtown Seattle has come to an end. The goal was to get nearly everyone who was homeless downtown into housing within a year. The King County Regional ...
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The Problem with Proving, Again and Again, That Portland and Seattle Are Not Dying
Portland "had the third-slowest recovery of 63 major cities in the ... 62 North American cities. The problem here is not any of this dying business. It's how the homeless crisis has been reduced ...
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Homelessness: Acknowledge addiction as a problem
Drug addiction is a major factor in homelessness ... the authority should at least recognize the problem. It’s “basic.” Phillip Johnson, Seattle The Seattle Times closes comments on ...
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The Problem with Proving, Again and Again, That Seattle and Portland Are Not Dying
Portland "had the third-slowest recovery of 63 major cities in the ... 62 North American cities. The problem here is not any of this dying business. It's how the homeless crisis has been reduced ...
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Hawaii Already Had a Massive Homelessness Problem. The Maui Wildfires Are Making It Worse
Among the charred remains were 78 long-term and temporary housing units owned by Ka Hale A Ke Ola, a homeless resource center in Maui. The center is one of many short-term emergency shelters that ...
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15 states with the biggest increases in homelessness
In major cities, in particular ... Despite the overall decrease in sheltered homelessness, the issue of homelessness "remains an urgent crisis," according to HUD Secretary Marcia L.
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Understanding homelessness at a citywide level
At the metropolitan level, the authors show, homelessness is more a symptom of affluence than of poverty. Cities with a lot of wealth, such as Seattle and San Francisco, have a much greater ...
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Homeless offender remains behind bars until accommodation problem can be sorted out
A homeless man held in prison on remand for a year remains behind bars until the problem of his lack of accommodation can be sorted out. Julius Vavrek was physically and verbally abused when down ...
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Seattle’s city attorney race and the problem of repeat offenders
In 2014, not long after I started a job as police reform and public safety adviser to the then-mayor of Seattle, I heard reports from residents and business owners on Capitol Hill of a single ...