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A History of Homelessness in Seattle

#SEAHomeless is raising awareness to Seattle's homeless problem. Here's a history of the past 12 years.

Hayat Norimine
Author: Hayat Norimine
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Back in 2005, King County had a plan to end homelessness in 10 years.

Twelve years later, it’s far from over. News organizations in Seattle and beyond raised awareness to the homelessness problem on Wednesday with great new content highlighting everything from the Women in Black to the landlords’ role in finding a solution.

The interactive timeline below gives you a history of some of the big news that’s happened in Seattle since 2005—for one thing, it helps you follow along the One-Night Count (now known as the Point-in-Time Count) throughout the years and how much it’s grown. 

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Gloria moved from Chicago to Seattle in 1992. As of 2015, after years on the streets—and with the help of Hohlbein’s network of donors and advocates at Noel House—she lived in an apartment in West Seattle. 

 




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Hayat Norimine
Hayat Norimine
Hayat Norimine, an Eastern Washington native, is Seattle Met’s news and politics hound and PubliCola reporter. She also contributes features and writes politics and culture stories throughout the magazine. Hayat began her journalism career as an English editor in Amman, Jordan, and later became a local government and Southwest Washington politics reporter at The Daily News in Longview. She has a degree in creative writing at the University of Washington and a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University. She now lives in West Seattle with her husband and Bedouin dog.