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Advocates for affordable housing in Seattle. (KIRO Radio)
In 2019, KOMO produced a documentary entitled “Seattle is Dying,” laying out a narrative arguing that an escalating homeless crisis was responsible for the downfall of the city’s downtown core. The network put out a sequel in December called “Fight for the Soul of Seattle,” and groups criticized in the segment are already speaking out.
The new 90-minute follow-up documentary from KOMO labels the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) a local homelessness nonprofit as “the single greatest drain on police resources in the city of Seattle.”
The organization released a lengthy statement addressing that accusation Monday, claiming that the documentary “conflates and simplifies complex issues, mischaracterizes DESC’s mission, and ignores our successful track record housing and supporting some of the city’s most vulnerable and marginalized people.”
How to care for your mental health in a difficult holiday season, according to therapistsHealth Updated on Dec 23, 2020 4:16 PM EDT Published on Dec 21, 2020 5:23 PM EDT
Chances are the final weeks of 2020 look markedly different than what you would’ve predicted on the first day of this year. With COVID-19 case and death counts on the rise and hospitals continuing to fill up, many are grappling with the ways that the unchecked coronavirus has sabotaged their daily lives, their economic stability and their time-honored traditions at the end of a year where shared celebration and community may feel more important than ever before.
Democrats and their liberal economic advisers obsess about income inequality. Will someone please tell them that no act in modern times has widened the gap between the rich and the poor more than the lockdowns going on right now?
Diane Yentel, the president and CEO of the leftist National Low Income Housing Coalition, said, The majority of the up to 17 million households at risk of losing their homes this winter are people of color.
Politico reported that minorities and the poor have been more vulnerable to job and income losses from the ensuing economic crisis, in large part because Black and Latino workers are over-represented in the service industries wiped out by shutdowns.
Will new coronavirus relief package be enough? Black and Latino landlords could lose big Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA TODAY
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MIAMI – Susana Lay worked from dawn to dusk alongside her grandfather while he sold and repaired Singer sewing machines in New York City. She was his todera
, or jack of all trades, helping with anything from bill collecting to mopping down the shop s floors. Soon, Lay was able to use her savings to buy her first home in her 20s.
One property turned into six, purchased together with her parents and siblings over the course of three decades.