As the weather gets colder and wetter, finding shelter for unhoused people around the Puget Sound is getting more urgent.
But things are about to change for a camp of unhoused Burien residents: the city struck an eleventh-hour deal to open 70 shelter spaces there in collaboration with King County.
The decision was controversial, and it won't end high tensions in the city over how to respond to homelessness.
Publicola editor Erica Barnett is here to tell us what happens next, and what other cities can take away from the story in Burien.