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Unrest and protest

by Ashley Archibald | January 17th, 2020

Clashes of ideology play out on city streets

El Diablo Coffee in Queen Anne is the kind of café that feels like you left your house only to walk into another living room. The tight corridors give way to open space with small tables and a communal bar where people sat with their laptops at noon on a...

HUD reports rise in homelessness

by Ashley Archibald | January 17th, 2020

A new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that homelessness in the United States ticked up by roughly 3 percent in 2019, but advocacy groups say that the figures grossly underestimate the number of homeless youth and...

The tents that were lined up along the outskirts of People’s Park in Tacoma in November are now gone. The city has recently begun enforcing a new ordinance that prohibits structures with walls in public parks.

Tacoma starts enforcing tent ban

by Ashley Archibald | January 17th, 2020

To comply with court ruling, the city helps find shelter for those who were living in area parks

The city of Tacoma began enforcing a controversial new rule that prohibits structures with walls in public parks on Jan. 7, forcing nearly two dozen campers to move along or accept offers of shelter. Officials helped 12 people access shelter during “the...

Police arrest a protester who came to oppose the “United Against Hate” rally held by the right-wing militia group, one of four people arrested on Jan. 5.

At the start of another election year, protesters, anti-protesters, police and journalists draw each other out

by Ashley Archibald | January 8th, 2020

Seattle police arrested four people Sunday who were protesting a far-right, anti-government militia group that held a rally outside City Hall in downtown Seattle. The arrests occurred near the tail end of the Three Percenters “United Against Hate” event as...

Village asked to move on

by Ashley Archibald | January 8th, 2020

Nickelsville tiny house village received a notice to vacate property owned by a church within a month to make room for an affordable housing development, according to a resident of the village, making it another at-risk Nickelsville location. This tiny...

Suboxone is given to opioid addicts to help stem the craving and to lessen withdrawal symptoms. DESC clients who seek treatment can now get Suboxone suppies with on-call support and delivery to their locations.

Local program expands harm-reduction treatment for opioid sufferers

by Ashley Archibald | January 8th, 2020

Emily Katz, the supervisor of an opioid treatment program at DESC, remembers how clients commonly get Suboxone, a treatment for opioid use disorder. A client would schedule more than five hours for the process. A nurse administers Suboxone — strips of...

The new Regional Homelessness Authority gives people who have experience homelessness a bigger voice in policy making.

A new year brings new plans for national and local homelessness policy

by Ashley Archibald | December 31st, 2019

Analysis

Few things are as arbitrary as tracking policy change by the calendar year, but 2020 is shaping up to be a sea change for homelessness policy at the local and federal level. What that means — and who feels the consequences — will be the measure of success...

Homecoming

by Ashley Archibald | December 31st, 2019

King County Executive Dow Constantine challenged the Trump administration in a letter to the Secretary of State saying that King County would allow refugees to settle in King County, despite an executive order making it harder to do so. In the letter,...

Alfred Dupree doesn’t like to stay in shelters. “They have blankets, but they don’t wash them. You can get bedbugs,” he said. Dupree slept rough during last year’s record snowfall.

Winter weather: The lessons learned last year

by Ashley Archibald | December 24th, 2019

There was a week this year when Laura Hamilton could not leave her home in the Lake City neighborhood. In the first two weeks of February, nearly 20 inches of snow dropped across Seattle, its highest snow total in a decade. Freezing conditions caused it to...

Fronting WA budget season

by Ashley Archibald | December 24th, 2019

Homelessness advocates cheered Gov. Jay Inslee’s Dec. 18 reveal of a proposed $300 million in programs meant to combat homelessness in Washington state over the next three years. Nearly half of that money — $146 million — would be spent in the first year,...