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Portland goes where Seattle won’t on homelessness
Jan 17, 2025 · The stats are brutal. Unsheltered homelessness in the Portland metro area has increased 109% since 2015, to 3,944 individuals. In King County, it’s gone up 157%, to 9,810.
Seattle claims to ‘protect’ hundreds of trees that were never ...
6 days ago · The veteran architect he hired for the job, with decades of experience in Seattle, told Jorgenson about a curious new requirement from the city to count his trees and report back to the city.
The Seattle Times editorial board recommends: A mixed review of …
2 days ago · For a home assessed at $932,000, that pencils out to $173 added to the tax bill in 2026. We recommend voters approve this operations levy. SPS’ second levy, for $1.8 billion in capital ...
The new report on homelessness shows a catastrophe for WA
Jan 4, 2025 · Since 2015, when leaders in Seattle and King County declared a homelessness emergency, the rate of unsheltered homelessness has soared. The numbers are jarring.
Seattle’s era-defining ‘prosperity bomb’ is still going off
Dec 18, 2024 · That report about the surge in Seattle’s economy found that the tech sector here generated $130 billion in economic output in 2023, an incredible 15.7% increase over the year before.
Seattle sets a housing record, and other sleeper stories from 2024
Jan 1, 2025 · The news tends to arrive in exclamation points. But there were some big Seattle stories in 2024 that were more like ellipses. They played out over time or were beneath the surface, and so maybe ...