A father and son kept apart by the quarantine remain in harm’s way

Offer a hand up today. Support the Vendor Relief Fund.

by Timothy Harris | March 18th, 2020

Offer a hand up today. Support the Vendor Relief Fund. How do you sell a street paper during a once in a century pandemic? Carefully, and with liberal applications of hand sanitizer. But eventually, you don’t. At least not face-to-face. We at Real Change...

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Shelters and encampments keeping things clean, staying close and social distancing

by Ashley Archibald | April 8th, 2020

Joseph Stinson doesn’t like to stay in one place for too long. When he leaves the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) where he’s staying, he takes two buses — routes 65 and 70 — to get to Sacred Heart, where he eats the one meal he’ll have that day...

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Dear Readers, Because a large number of Seattle offices and businesses have shut down in response to the coronavirus, vendors have seen a large drop in the number of customers and locations to sell. We are choosing to offer the PDF of this week's paper to...

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I’m just a poor country mathematician trying to add it up, like everyone else

by Dr. Wes Browning | April 8th, 2020

Now: lockdowns within lockdowns. Shelters are finding clients suffering from COVID-19. After getting them to hospitals, the shelters are locking down. Within a city that is already living under a lockdown order. At Union Gospel Mission (UGM) in Pioneer...
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Maybe now more than ever, we can understand the fear that homeless people face

by Patrick O'Connell | April 8th, 2020

If you have a well-stocked pantry and you’re able to work from home right now, you are in very good shape to stay safe from the virus. Thousands of people in the Seattle area who may not have homes or may not have stable employment cannot necessarily say...
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Homeless Rights Advocacy Project issues call to action for COVID-19

via Seattle University School of Law Homeless Rights Advocacy Project | April 8th, 2020

Seattle University School of Law’s Homeless Rights Advocacy Project issued this call to action on April 3 to protect the lives of unsheltered people and the entire community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are in the throes of a pandemic. COVID-19 may...
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Groaning and grounding

by John Helmiere | April 8th, 2020

As the societal shutdown drags on, I find myself on tumultuous seas. I am tossed between troughs of despair and crests of equanimity. I do not think I am alone. All around, I hear groaning — expressions of fear, anger, helplessness, yearning and anxiety...
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What happens to renters after the moratorium on evictions ends?

by Ashley Archibald | April 8th, 2020

Recent reports show that the Puget Sound region is turning the tide against the coronavirus through vigilant self-distancing and the hard work of medical professionals, grocery store employees and other workers now deemed “essential” who were under-...
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Hep A diagnoses grow

by Ashley Archibald | April 8th, 2020

The coronavirus is the most recent infectious disease that public health officials are fighting, but it isn’t the only one. According to Seattle & King County Public Health, 101 people have tested positive for Hepatitis A since January 2019, with 25...
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Shelters and encampments keeping things clean, staying close and social distancing

by Ashley Archibald | April 8th, 2020

Joseph Stinson doesn’t like to stay in one place for too long. When he leaves the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) where he’s staying, he takes two buses — routes 65 and 70 — to get to Sacred Heart, where he eats the one meal he’ll have that day...
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Dear Readers, Because a large number of Seattle offices and businesses have shut down in response to the coronavirus, vendors have seen a large drop in the number of customers and locations to sell. We are choosing to offer the PDF of this week's paper to...
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Benefits for some, but some get none

by Hanna Brooks Olsen | April 1st, 2020

Since the beginning of March, thousands of Washington state residents have found themselves underemployed, unemployed and otherwise without a clear idea of how they’ll pay rent this month. Many of them were told that their best bet was to apply for...
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We are all in this together

by Dr. Wes Browning | April 1st, 2020

I rode a bus yesterday for the first time since COVID-19 hit King County. People looked at me like I was either there to kill them or to die in front of them. I think I’m going to walk a lot in the near future. Yet, a silver lining to the global pandemic is...
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Wealth and the city

by Mike Wold | April 1st, 2020

Three generations of Trumps show how real estate is dependent on government support

Cities in the United States — including Seattle — have been rapidly changing in the past decade or two. Industrial areas with well-paying jobs have been redeveloped for high-end housing or technology companies; affordable residential areas have disappeared...
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Alone in an empty city

via Mark White | April 1st, 2020

A deadly novel coronavirus has silenced the streets of Seattle

Click the image to the left to view this photo essay. When Seattle shut down non-essential businesses and services due to COVID-19, I hit the streets in the city’s core to see how social distancing would take place at the street level. A pandemic that...
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Pandemic brings progressive change, but for how long?

by Ashley Archibald | April 1st, 2020

In February, Sound Transit held a meeting at Seattle’s El Centro De La Raza to discuss changes to its fare enforcement policy. At question were practices that potentially discriminated against homeless people and people of color, and what could be done to...
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Federal response lacking

by Ashley Archibald | April 1st, 2020

As state and local governments struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. government efforts to get needed protective gear to medical professionals and economic relief to Americans have been slow and inadequate, experts say. President Donald Trump...
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A father and son kept apart by the quarantine remain in harm’s way

by Ashley Archibald | April 1st, 2020

Every day since the coronavirus struck Seattle, Michael Dare Sr. leaves his apartment on the top floor of Ernestine Anderson Place and goes outside. The complex, meant for low-income people who are 55 or older, no longer allows visitors, in order to protect...
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