Wilson outlined priorities for her first term, including reducing unsheltered homelessness, improving affordability, and ...

The emergency declaration on homelessness in 2015 has helped direct funding and policy toward shelter and related services in the decade since. But the number of homeless people in the region ...

As Seattle considers sanctioned homeless camps again, we stand at a familiar crossroads. I've spent five years with We Heart Seattle doing boots-on-the-ground outreach and cleanup, alongside lived ...

Katie Wilson is being sworn in today as the fifty-eighth mayor of Seattle, following one of the closest and most ...

Every day we see homeless people on Seattle’s sidewalks, in public rights-of-way and in parks. At some point, we stop seeing ...

SEATTLE — A double homicide at a Seattle park became the tipping point for a community overwhelmed by the impacts of homeless camps. On Friday, people in Lake City called for community-led solutions ...

Homelessness increased 18 percent, from 653,104 people during the 2024 Point-in-Time Count to 771,480 people during the 2025 ...

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Katie Wilson is set to be inaugurated as Seattle's next mayor on Friday at 10 a.m. in a public ceremony at Seattle City Hall.

SEATTLE, Wash. — As COVID-19 worsened throughout 2020, so did homelessness. During a time when preventing the spread of the virus was first priority, it was nearly impossible to shelter people in the ...