shelter

More than three-quarters of Washington’s 42,000 homeless students aren’t sleeping outside or in shelters. They're on someone’s couch, staying temporarily with friends, relatives, or acquaintances, often without a room or a bed of their own. It's a situation known as being "doubled-up."

The Yakima City Council authorized a two-million-dollar contract with the YMCA to build a new emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence in Yakima.

It’s been cold and wet the past few weeks in Tacoma. That’s had an impact on the residents of Tacoma’s new temporary tent-shelter mitigation site, Forging Paths, off of 35th and Pacific Avenue. A resident at the site, who preferred to go by his first name Cash for privacy reasons, said one downside of living at the site has been a lack of preparation and foresight for how the weather would impact the tents.