Major homeless response announcements today

Today the Mayor’s Office announced a new Pathway Home initiative to respond to the homeless crisis in Seattle. Along with the long awaited Poppe Report, the Mayor released another commissioned performance assessment on the Seattle/King County homeless response and an action plan for the city. In addition, the Council’s Human Services and Public Health Committee meets this afternoon to discuss all of this. Several hundred pages of reports and plans were released today, and it will take some time to digest.  I’ll be burning the midnight oil tonight, and will have a full report in the morning.  UPDATE 9/9/16  12:00 …

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Notes from this morning’s Council Briefing

It was a very news-worthy council briefing: a preview of this afternoon’s debate and vote on the source-of-income discrimination ban, what’s up with secure scheduling legislation, lots of stuff in the GESCNA committee, an update on the homeless crisis response and a throw-down between Council members Juarez and O’Brien over the North Precinct police station.

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