State Sen. Joe Nguyen (D-34, White Center) has proposeda billthat would make it easier for homeless service providers to build homeless shelters across the state, including in Seattle. The city of Seattle consulted with Nguyen on the legislation, which would allow cities to permit homeless she...
For those of us who think about tiny houses every day this doesn’t seem like a new or strange idea. In fact it seems perfectly logical to build tiny houses for the homeless or anyone who needs or wants a low-cost place to live. In fact it seems so logical to me I wonder why com...
For my own experience, I volunteered at a shelter to work with the dogs and workers. This shelter called me for advice repeatedly and then ignored what I said. This does nothing to make me want to work with them. I never heard that they didn’t understand, or that they had questions...
Let me add one thing here,because I know that this issue is controversial and a bit of a hot button issue for some. First off, I think it’s important to avoid negative statements about people and organizations who have done food guarding tests with the best of intentions. Yes, we have...
Among the objectives of this community center or shelter for women and children is that the families who are there can start a more productive life. They can then grow and establish themselves economically in the community. It is one of the few centers in the city of Chicago where you can...
Then there is a collection of outer-borough residential buildings that operate as “cluster” sites—basically, apartments rented by the city to house homeless families. The city’s largest shelter cluster encompasses fourteen locations in the Bronx. All but one of the buildings are owned by the...