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Thirteen new homeowners making 80% or less of the area median income that will live in a new building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Some of the residents in the building are social workers, bus drivers and nonprofit employees who would've typically been priced out of the city.
Homelessness During the Pandemic May 10, 2021, 12pm PDT | James Brasuell | A comic strip, with reporting by Amber Cortes and illustrations by Carl Nelson, provides a rare kind of access to the human stories of homelessness during the pandemic. The comic focuses on the work of a group of people experiencing homelessness during the pandemic in Portland, Oregon, detailing the steps they took to reduce risks during the pandemic in the face of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus in addition to new levels of economic and food insecurity. The headline of the story I about how the pandemic...