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A look at how communities are making progress helping people who are homeless.

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Compassion Seattle has a plan for a tent-free city. Does it hold up? A new campaign to address the city’s homelessness crisis says existing funds are all we need. That’s doubtful. by Tents and structures seen at a homeless encampment near South Dearborn Street in Seattle's Chinatown-International District, Feb. 25, 2019 (Photo by Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) Former Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess and a bevy of business groups are tired of the tents. They have a vision: The city should, very quickly, create a lot of new shelter or housing. Then it should move people off the streets a...

Washington receives grant to create more housing for low-income people with disabilities By Becca Savransky, SeattlePI © Genna Martin, Seattlepi.com Robert VanGuilder, center, sits by a fire outside his tent in SoDo as the Union Gospel Mission Search and Rescue team hands out hot chocolate, food and other supplies from their vans across the street, Oct. 8, 2019. Washington has received a $6 million federal grant to help expand rental housing for extremely low-income people with disabilities. The grant -- from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development -- will help...