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Crime, homelessness

Homelessness Authority, LIHI Clashed Over Reporting of Two Deaths at Tiny House Village

By Erica C. Barnett The King County Regional Homelessness Authority accused the Low-Income Housing Institute last year of failing to…

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LIHI Suspends Mail Service to Several Shelters, Says “Legally, We Can’t Be Accepting Mail”

By Erica C. Barnett Earlier this week, the homeless advocates at Stop the Sweeps raised the alarm about the recent…

homelessness, human services, LGBTQ+, Mayor Harrell

KCRHA Updates: Chief Financial Officer Fired, Board Approves Budget that Will Shut Down Shelters, CEO Comments on “The LGBTQ Stuff,” and—Believe it or Not—More

By Erica C. Barnett Darrell Powell, the interim director of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, abruptly fired the KCRHA’s…

homelessness

An Outreach Worker’s Offer to Homeless Shelter Residents Sounded Too Good To Be True. Turns Out, It Was

By Erica C. Barnett An outreach worker from the King County Regional Homelessness Authority—one of dozens of “systems advocates” working…

homelessness, housing, King County, Mayor Harrell

Ambitious New Plan Says King County Needs to Spend Billions a Year on Homelessness. But is that Realistic—or Even Necessary?

By Erica C. Barnett When King County and the city of Seattle established the King County Regional Homelessness Authority in…

Courts, homelessness, housing

Former Tiny House Village Resident Sues Nonprofit, Alleging Unlawful Eviction

By Erica C. Barnett A former resident of the Low-Income Housing Institute’s Plum Street Tiny House Village in Olympia has…