It has been over nine months since Seattle Mayor Ed Murray declared a “state of civil emergency” in response to an alarming, and growing, number of people living on the streets. ...
In a culmination of three decades of perpetual crisis, Seattle late last year joined other West Coast cities in proclaiming that homelessness had reached a state of emergency. ...
The first floor of the Ayers house was torn away as floodwaters carried the house more than a block and dumped the second story against a pile of debris. Tom Ayers had the top story and its cupola...