Homeless Count: Tragedy

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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Homeless Count: Tragedy</h1>
                <h2><p>This year's homeless count revealed a small uptick in the number of homeless people in Seattle: 2,736 compared to 2,594 a year ago. Volunteers also found a woman's body in the 1200 block of Rainier Avenue South. She showed no obvious signs of trauma,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Feb 6, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>This year's homeless count revealed a small uptick in the number of homeless people in Seattle: 2,736 compared to 2,594 a year ago. <a href="http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2013/01/25/womans-body-found-this-morning-under-i-90-overpass/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Volunteers also found a woman's body</a> in the 1200 block of Rainier Avenue South. She showed no obvious signs of trauma, <a href="http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/01/womans-body-found-during-homeless-count/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">according to the Seattle Times reports</a>. In a statement, Alison Eisinger of the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness said, "This morning we are especially reminded that everyone should have a place to call home." Tim Harris, the executive director of Real Change often argues with other advocates on how to address homelessness, but today Harris was helping organize a demonstration at City Hall (<a href="http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/photo-of-the-day-nick-l?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">covered by Publicola</a>) on a very unifying idea: No matter the annual count's finally tally, up or down, even one person without shelter is one too many. In Real Change, <a href="http://realchangenews.org/index.php/site/archives/7456?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Harris had some good ideas for addressing homelessness</a> through tax measures, greater equity and innovative housing programs.</p>
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This year's homeless count revealed a small uptick in the number of homeless people in Seattle: 2,736 compared to 2,594 a year ago. Volunteers also found a woman's body in the 1200 block of Rainier Avenue South. She showed no obvious signs of trauma, according to the Seattle Times reports. In a statement, Alison Eisinger of the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness said, "This morning we are especially reminded that everyone should have a place to call home." Tim Harris, the executive director of Real Change often argues with other advocates on how to address homelessness, but today Harris was helping organize a demonstration at City Hall (covered by Publicola) on a very unifying idea: No matter the annual count's finally tally, up or down, even one person without shelter is one too many. In Real Change, Harris had some good ideas for addressing homelessness through tax measures, greater equity and innovative housing programs.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi