This year, there’s a plan with actual bed counts and costs. But some service providers are still frustrated by a lack of concrete details, like where exactly those beds will be and how the city will replace the loss of capacity at the soon-to-be-defunct Trent Shelter.
Running down the facts, fictions and feelings about an ordinance that would make housing status a protected class and enshrine “the human rights and basic dignities of individuals experiencing homelessness.”
You won’t find the answer to “solving homelessness” here, but you will find the ideas, hopes, plans and dreams of the community members and elected officials we interviewed.
Service providers and city officials scramble to create shelter space for the cold snap. Plus, resources, contact info and donation links so you can help keep your community safe.
Spokane city council members are calling for more accountability as up to 37 TRAC residents were abruptly kicked out of the homeless shelter this week.
Last winter, communicable disease ran rampant at Spokane’s largest congregate shelter. Almost nothing has changed in a year, and former health officer Bob Lutz is sounding the alarm.
