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Burien City Council considers offering homeless services

Jaison Briar has been there. Thirteen years ago, he was a homeless teen living out of his car, getting help from day services, talking with other homeless folks. He’s also helped homeless people, working at youth shelters around Seattle. So his message to ...

March 29th, 2017 - Aaron Burkhalter
Funding Cliff: City’s grant funding process boosts some, cuts others

Click to view larger The city of Seattle unveiled a massive realignment of its homeless services spending Monday that officials expect will reduce the overall number of emergency shelter beds as it doubles the number of people who move into permanent hous ...

November 29th, 2017 - Ashley Archibald
Director's Corner: The Emerald City Resource Guide is a pocket-sized portal to change

Click to view larger Real Change has released the Emerald City Resource Guide, and we could not be more proud. This durable and comprehensive pocket-sized booklet puts 132 slim pages of essential resources at the fingertips of homeless and very low-income ...

April 4th, 2018 - Tim Harris
Seattle isn’t attracting outsiders to our good services; our services aren’t good

COMMENTARY There’s this rumor that the reason this city finds itself “suddenly” flooded with unhoused people is because it has great services. As someone who works in social services and as someone who requires social services, this is an utterly bizarre ...

July 4th, 2018 - Megan Wildhood