The Regional Homelessness Authority says that adding shelter beds “does not reduce homelessness unless there is a pathway to housing.” But as long as people are waiting there, an authority official said he’d rather shelters be a “more human-centered, decent place for folks to live.”...
Locally, Atkinson said, groups like the King County Housing Authority and Seattle Children’s hospital have done repeated trainings. “Seeing people come back and say they want to offer it to their staff and community shows that there...
was experiencing what housing experts and advocates deemed an eviction crisis. More than 2 million people face eviction each year, far more than the number of people who faced foreclosure at the height of the 2008 mortgage crisis. Experts expect the eviction crisis to get far worse in the comi...
Jay Inslee said the goal is to get people into ‘rapid housing,’ like hotel rooms and tiny home villages. He'll be looking for more funding in 2023 to continue those efforts. "In the past several months, we’ve seen quite a number of these encampments removed from our right-of-...
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The goal going forward is to shrink those gaps so more people can be connected with services — and ultimately housing. The big question McHugh said the data can hopefully answer: “From start to finish, what is a person’s experience of the system?” ...
A2018 auditfound Seattle’s homeless response to be flawed because of a lack of coordination between cities, the county, housing authorities, and service providers. All Home, the agency created to oversee the Seattle region’s homeless response, “lacks the authority to unify local funders into ...
But he also sounded worryingly NIMBY, calling for more process on housing, and an increased role for neighborhoods in planning and development. He sounded much more anti-tax than usual, criticizing property tax levies that he said threatened to turn us into San Francisco. Perhaps McGinn knows ...
or a housing authority that preserves the housing; or the landlord compensates the tenants for the loss of their homes at their assessed value prior to a change of use or sale of the property. The committee amendment reduced the notification time from 3 years to 18 months. The substitute bi...
County Executive Dow Constantine said Thursday in the first meeting of the governing board of the regional homelessness authority that of more than 200 tests at the hotel, there hasn’t been a single confirmed case of COVID-19. “That clearly would not have been ...