Homeless

She felt her baby inside her and realized it was time to get clean

A few years ago, Mary was in a bad place. Mary isn’t her real name, we’ve changed it to protect her privacy. She was homeless, she’d lost her daughter to her former partner, she was using heroin and she was pregnant.

NPR reports on Seattle's 'visible homeless' and 'Seattle is Dying'

Some prosecutors are less inclined to seek jail time for offenses committed by people with mental illness or drug problems. But public frustration is growing in Seattle.

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A funeral for 302 people: King County lays to rest indigent remains

The King County Medical Examiner's Office held a funeral for 302 indigent people at a cemetery in Renton Wednesday.

Car-dwellers in Seattle may soon have parking spots to call their own

For about a year, TJ was homeless and living in a small, gray SUV with his wife Misty. At night, they would drive around trying to find somewhere to sleep. They looked for spots where they’d feel secure but they wouldn’t be asked to move.

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This Seattle culinary program helps people get out of homelessness

The next time you’re at a Seattle restaurant, the person cooking your food could be a graduate of FareStart, a non-profit that provides food service training for people trying to get out of homelessness.

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Homeless count down in King County but not everywhere in WA

Washington state has seen a slight overall decline in homelessness. And yet the number of people living on the streets or in shelters has gone up in about half the state’s counties.

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He's turning his past street life into a screenplay

The first thing you notice about Raymond Power is his smile, wide and welcoming. The second thing you see are the tattoos that wrap around his forearms, creep over the collar of his button-down shirt, and drip out of the corner of an eye down to his cheekbone. “The tattoos are a big barrier,” Power says about his search for employment. “I still get followed in stores to this day.”

How an Amazon pledge figures in the politics of housing

Amazon and Microsoft this week pledged $5 million each to build housing for homeless people in the Seattle area. Is there a political effect of this kind of corporate action?

Amazon, Microsoft back new push to house the homeless in Seattle

Some of the Seattle area’s biggest businesses are backing a $75 million fund-raising effort by Plymouth Housing to build homes for 800 homeless people.