00000181-fa79-da89-a38d-fb7f2ae90001March 2015 marks the anniversary of a bold promise: King County's 10-year plan to end homelessness. The Committee To End Homelessness, which created the plan, has been working to revise its strategy now that the 10-year plan is ending and local homelessness is worse than ever.Talk of ending homelessness is being replaced with less-lofty aspirations: making homelessness rare and brief when it does occur.This series is a collaboration with InvestigateWest and is edited by KUOW's Carol Smith. Join the conversation on Twitter using #NoEndInSight.
Since January 2004, Austin Jenkins has been the Olympia-based political reporter for the Northwest News Network. In that position, Austin covers Northwest politics and public policy, as well as the Washington State Legislature. You can also see Austin on television as host of TVW's (the C–SPAN of Washington State) Emmy-nominated public affairs program "Inside Olympia."