Homelessness

The Anatomy of a Crisis

The one night count in King County.

By Seattle Met Staff December 29, 2015 Published in the January 2016 issue of Seattle Met

Since 1980, volunteers have fanned the region to take measure of King County’s homelessness crisis. During the most recent count, on January 23, 2015, between the hours of 2am and 5am, some 1,100 people looked under overpasses, in cars, in breezeways—anywhere men, women, and children might be trying to survive without proper shelter. This is what they found.

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Graphic: Jane Sherman

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