No End In Sight

Ten years ago this month, King County made a bold promise to end homelessness in 10 years. The ranks of the homeless have declined in Washington state and…

If you have an emergency, you call 911.If you need emergency shelter or housing, you can call 211 – but be prepared to wait six months or more.In the…

A phone rings in a room full of busy operators at Seattle's Crisis Clinic. Alex Williams answers this one. “Good morning, thank you for calling King…

Jessica Tossey is in the living room of her condo, getting herself and young son Blakely ready for their mile-long walk to church, where he goes to…

When a homeless person needs help, they are often asked for a lot of personal information.For victims of domestic violence, that information could…

In 2002, when the Bush administration started pushing cities to adopt 10-year plans to reduce homelessness, Seattle/King County was already on board.The…

To complement our series Seattle’s Homeless: No End In Sight, we asked organizations who work with homeless people around King County to participate in an…

00000181-fa79-da89-a38d-fb7f2ae90001March 2015 marks the anniversary of a bold promise: King County's 10-year plan to end homelessness. The Committee To End Homelessness, which created the plan, has been working to revise its strategy now that the 10-year plan is ending and local homelessness is worse than ever.Talk of ending homelessness is being replaced with less-lofty aspirations: making homelessness rare and brief when it does occur.This series is a collaboration with InvestigateWest and is edited by KUOW's Carol Smith. Join the conversation on Twitter using #NoEndInSight.

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