Reporter&amp;#039;s Notebook: Census question ruled out

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What you need to know about the storm and how it’s affecting people experiencing homelessness in Seattle

by Ashley Archibald | February 13th, 2019

How big is this storm?
Big. The storm is expected to impact all of western Washington, dumping an average of 4 to 6 inches of snow in the Seattle area, with winds up to 45 miles per hour. Temperatures are at or below freezing and could drop further. “We’re not even seeing the coldest air,” Kirby Cook, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told Real Change.
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Reporter's Notebook: Many are missing meals

by Ashley Archibald | February 13th, 2019
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Reporter's Notebook: mobile home park development halted, billionaire bid for president and viaduct farewell

by Ashley Archibald | February 6th, 2019

Halcyon days
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The city of Burien creates a new way to deal with low-level infractions with community court

by Ashley Archibald | January 30th, 2019

The city of Burien is launching a new community court to offer people charged with low-level misdemeanors an alternative to the traditional criminal justice system.
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Reporter's Notebook: unused federal credits, open council seats and ballot propositions

by Ashley Archibald | January 30th, 2019

Get your money
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The annual point-in-time count on an unseasonably warm night

by Ashley Archibald | January 30th, 2019

It felt warm for January in Seattle. People were marveling at it, even joking about it, but at 4 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 25, it didn’t much matter. The fact that Seattle’s clime felt unusually moderate was likely cold comfort for the man wrapped in blankets sleeping underneath Interstate 5.

He wasn’t trying to hide, but it was still hard to see him in the dim light. Michael George, a candidate running to replace Councilmember Sally Bagshaw in District 7, noted his presence on a form attached to a clipboard.
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Once a national model, Utah struggles with homelessness

by Gregory Scruggs | January 30th, 2019

Once lauded as a leader among United States cities struggling to relieve homelessness, the number of people sleeping rough in Utah’s capital has spiked in the past two years, as funding for its ground-breaking housing program dried up.

U.S. Homelessness is on the rise for the second year in a row, according to a December report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The increase has been particularly noticeable in Utah, which had reduced chronic homelessness by 91 percent over the decade up to 2015, according to the state’s annual homelessness report.
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Join us Feb. 6 for our #VendorWeek celebration

by Real Change Newsroom | January 30th, 2019

The second week of February, Real Change is joining street newspapers in the United States and around the world for Vendor Week. The annual event is an opportunity to celebrate more than 9,000 vendors across 35 countries. We’ll be paying tribute to their hard work and their efforts to challenge perceptions people hold about those who are experiencing homelessness and poverty.
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Microsoft loans $500 million to address the county's housing crisis

by Ashley Archibald | January 23rd, 2019

Microsoft’s leaders announced Jan. 16 that the company would forward $500 million in loans and grants to spur the construction of affordable housing throughout King County in an effort to lessen the twin crises of housing affordability and homelessness in its home region.

The company will invest $225 million at lower-than-market-rate returns targeted at subsidizing the preservation and construction of middle-income housing on the east end of the county as well as $250 million at market-rate returns to support low-income housing throughout the county.
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Reporter's Notebook: Census question ruled out

by Ashley Archibald | January 23rd, 2019

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration could not include a question on the 2020 census asking if a person was a citizen of the United States.

Plaintiffs successfully argued that adding a citizenship question would reduce the number of responses, particularly among noncitizen and Hispanic households, according to the decision, a result that couldn’t be fixed through the Census Bureau’s “Non-Response Follow Up” procedures.
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