RENTON, Wash.-SinceCOVIDhit hard this spring, King County officials have used the Red Lion Inn in Renton as a homeless shelter in an attempt to prevent devastating outbreaks within homeless shelters in the county. And the good news is that is working. But officials in the ...
WSDOT explained the strategy in a recent letter to school parents, writing that when shelters aren’t a good match people hold out for options that meet their needs – which means they remain outdoors longer and simply spread into neighborhoods and start the process over again. "The hous...
The homeless point-in-time survey is based on counts at shelters and on the streets. While imperfect, it attempts to represent how many people are homeless at a given time. Those who work regularly with the homeless say it is certainly an undercount, although many advocates and officials ...