Washington state law requires everyone has access to emergency shelters, warming centers and basic services, especially ...

Despite a slowdown in the growth rate of homelessness in Washington, the numbers remain alarmingly high according to the 2025 ...

Andrea Suarez dismantles a tent as garbage lies piled at a homeless encampment on March 13, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Homelessness is still on the rise in ...

An estimated 158,791 people were living in emergency shelters or unhoused in January, according to new state data, an ...

Homelessness is still on the rise in Washington, but data collected by the state Department of Commerce shows that the growth rate across much of the state slowed last year. This comes as the state ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The growth rate of homelessness in Washington slowed in 2025, according to results from the annual Point in Time (PIT) count and the Department of Commerce’s Snapshot of Homelessness ...

WASHINGTON — Just before mid-day Thursday, crews here moved into a grassy park near the Lincoln Memorial in the nation's capital, dismantling one of the small homeless encampments that's drawn the ire ...

Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents were packing their belongings Thursday before expected sweeps to clear out remaining encampments around the nation's capital, part of President ...

Every morning, Skyler Kelley wakes up and applies for jobs. It's a far cry from the life she had in 2024, when she ran her own coffee shop in Arlington. But her lack of business experience, plus the ...

Troy Brynelson / OPB Homelessness is still on the rise in Washington, but data collected by the state Department of Commerce shows that the growth rate across much of the state slowed last year. This ...