In a 6-3 decision split on ideological lines, the court ruled that an Oregon town’s ban on sleeping outdoors does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, effectively sanctioning the criminalization of homelessness....
The Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) pilot program launched last October. The program sends mental health experts out with police officers to respond to people having mental or behavioral health crises. The...
On Monday afternoon, House Our Neighbors, a nonprofit social housing advocacy group, submitted 37,819 signatures to Seattle’s Office of the City Clerk to get Initiative 137 on the ballot. That’s well over...
AARP also supported the statewide “missing middle” zoning bill that legalized duplexes, quadplexes and sixplexes in all residential neighborhoods in WA. “It’s about letting older adults have more choices for housing options,”...
Since the program’s creation in 2016, 20 EDI projects have been completed, with another 56 in the pipeline.Leah Martin, an architect who has worked with community groups on EDI projects, testified on...
Mayor Bruce Harrell announced Diaz would be stepping down as chief to work on special projects at a press conference Wednesday. The mayor said he is appointing former King County Sheriff Sue...
The CEOs’ letter, sent to Harrell and the Office of Planning and Community Development on May 20, comes one week after a group of more than 50 business leaders, affordable-housing advocates and...
The previous SPOG contract expired in 2020, and the city and police union have been locked in protracted negotiations since. The contract ratified Tuesday is entirely retroactive, covering 2021-2023 to provide about...
