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Homelessness Task Force Explores 'Dignity Bus' as Low-Cost Shelter Option
Olycap considers innovative mobile shelter to address urgent needs of unhoused residents.
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Comprehensive new homeless housing plan will require execution, funding
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2414"] Infographic from the five-year plan meeting [/caption] News by Scott France The mounting challenges of meeting the housing needs of those at or near the edge of homelessness have spurred a coalition of housing and homeless services providers, City
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Winter Welcoming Center Reflects Its Founder’s Lifelong Mission
[caption id align="alignnone" width="2016"] Ben Casserd, Manager; Janet Dizick, monitor; Julia, and Lisa Anderson, former Center worker, now Host at the Emergency Shelter. Photo by Paul Heins [/caption] News by Scott France Port Townsend‘s downtown seaside Winter Welcoming Center for the unhoused can
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Dissatisfaction Abounds as Evans Vista Encampment Chapter Closes
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1280"] The Port Townsend Police Department posted "No Trespassing" signs around the Evan's Vista property at the 5pm deadline. No arrests were made. Photo by Heather G Johnson [/caption] News by Scott France The City of Port
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Port Townsend Relaxes Code to Ease Path to Develop Homeless Encampment
[caption id align="alignnone" width="3472"] An injuction filed by Michele Goodwin (pictured), an encampment resident, has temporarily halted the encampment closure. Photo by Scott France [/caption] News by Scott France The City of Port Townsend voted in a special City Council meeting tonight to change
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An Open Letter to the City of Port Townsend from Well Organized Jefferson County
Open letter from Well Organized Jefferson County to the City of Port Townsend and Jefferson County Commissioners: Dear Council members, Commissioners, and City Manager Mauro, We write as residents, organizations, service providers, and community partners, deeply concerned about the planned removal of the encampment at Evans Vista, near DSHS, scheduled
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Encampment Transition Plan Elusive as Closure Date Nears
[caption id align="alignnone" width="4624"] There is currently no place for the people living behind DSHS to go after the November 3 eviction date. Photo by Scott France [/caption] News by Scott France The City of Port Townsend is sticking with its plan to disband
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Jefferson County Expands Collaboration Efforts to Address Rising Homelessness Challenges
[caption id align="alignnone" width="4624"] Caswell-Brown houses roughly 20 residents and doesn’t have nearly enough capacity to help all of the unhoused population of Jefferson County. Photo by Scott France. [/caption] News by Scott France As forces contributing to homelessness in Jefferson County
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Homelessness Crisis Deepens as the County Laundry Voucher Fund Dries Up
News by Angela Downs Homelessness has always been a difficult and expensive social issue to solve, and despite the biases, it is largely not caused by drugs and mental health problems. Most drug and mental health disorders appear as a result of experiencing homelessness. For most, chronic homelessness starts at
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Early efforts hope to better evaluate local homelessness
By Derek Firenze As temperatures begin to bottom out, the annual Point in Time count of the local homeless population is a top priority. Viola Ware, director of Housing and Community Development for the Olympic Community Action Program, better known as OlyCAP, has already been spearheading this year’s Point