Breaking the Cycle: Experiment helps poor families move to high opportunity neighborhoods

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Jim Pugel questions campaign money: “I don’t think it should ever be anonymous so that you can gauge whether that PAC, that group that’s donated, has an unhealthy hook on the candidate that they’re trying to support.” Photo by Jon Williams

Vying for Votes: Interview with City Council District 7 candidate Jim Pugel

by Ashley Archibald and Lisa Edge | September 4th, 2019

It’s hard to describe Seattle’s District 7, an area that runs from the “quasi suburban” Magnolia to the industrial Interbay, through gentrifying Belltown and even one block into historic Pioneer Square. But two men — Andrew Lewis and Jim Pugel — feel that...

Andrew Lewis claims to have raised the most democracy vouchers in the City Council campaign. “I think that’s going to be the future of political campaigns in this country,” he said. Photo by Jon Williams

Vying for Votes: Interview with City Council District 7 candidate Andrew Lewis

by Ashley Archibald and Lisa Edge | September 4th, 2019

SHARE, which funds Tent City 3 currently located under I-5, may lose federal dollars. Photo by Ashley Archibald

Loss of FEMA dollars leaves little funds for small agencies like SHARE

by Ashley Archibald | September 4th, 2019

Tent City 3, a self-managed tent encampment currently perched on a small plot of state land under the Interstate 5, has often faced funding challenges. Its parent organization, the Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE), doesn’t consistently meet...

Reporter’s Notebook: Doctors know best, review shows

by Ashley Archibald | September 4th, 2019

A groundbreaking program review from researchers at the University of Washington and Seattle King County Public Health found that people connected to opioid treatment through their local needle exchange were more likely to continue accessing that treatment...

King County deemed too wealthy for federal homeless funds

by Ashley Archibald | August 29th, 2019

King County lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal money aimed to help homeless people this year because it was too wealthy, leaving holes in the budgets of organizations that have been able to count on the funding in years past. The money...

The UNEA after-school program lost its home at Robert Eagle Staff Elementary after years of partnering with Seattle Public Schools. Wikipedia photo

Indigenous after-school program is still looking for a new home

by Ashley Archibald | August 28th, 2019

Despite help from the city, it’s unlikely UNEA will begin its Native American program with the new school year

An after-school program to lift up Indigenous students is still looking for a home months after Seattle Public Schools (SPS) canceled a standing arrangement to provide space at a school near Licton Springs. The Urban Native Education Alliance ( UNEA ) needs...

Reporter’s Notebook: HUD proposes changes to discrimination complaints, local author doxed

by Ashley Archibald | August 28th, 2019

Fair housing for whom? The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a new regulation that would make it harder for people to bring discrimination complaints under the Fair Housing Act over policies that are neutral on their face but...

A line of storage tents set up on the east side of the Tent City 3 encampment in Ravenna. The camp moved to the chunk of public land after leaving their previous church host without an alternative location. They will now move to a church site in Tukwila.

After a controversial move, Tent City 3 pulls up stakes and heads to Tukwila

by Ashley Archibald | August 28th, 2019

Seattle’s oldest self-managed tent encampment will move to a church in Tukwila on Sept. 7 after a brief stint on public property in the Ravenna neighborhood. Tent City 3, which currently houses approximately 50 people, moves every three months to a new site...

Reporter’s Notebook: Black women’s equal pay day, Seattle’s green new deal, political spending limits

by Ashley Archibald | August 21st, 2019

Behind the times Aug. 22 may not immediately strike most of us as a day of particular note. It is a Thursday, there’s no federal holiday and even the random observances such as National Pecan Torte Day are especially minor. However, this day — more than...

SHA and KCHA are collaborating with researchers on the Creating Moves to Opportunity project. Photo by Ashley Archibald

Breaking the Cycle: Experiment helps poor families move to high opportunity neighborhoods

by Ashley Archibald | August 21st, 2019

Parents want the best for their children — the best schools to get a good education, food to keep them healthy and activities to expand their minds and enrich their lives. But access to these things isn’t universal, and that lack of access helps lock poor...