homelessness

The Yakima County Department of Human Services conducted the survey on February 24th across Yakima County.

The 2022 Point in Time survey of homeless people found 670 people experiencing homeless in Yakima County, an increase of 4% from the previous 2021 PIT Survey.

Mission Executive Director Mike Johnson tells KIT news homelessness in Yakima grew by 49% over the last year

Research has shown that over 70% of the people who are chronically homeless struggle with a serious health condition, including mental illness.

Best and several business owners will talk about the ongoing problem of homelessness during an appearance on The Morning News Thursday at 7:40 a.m. on KIT.

Public housing experts will be giving talks about efforts to provide affordable and sustainable housing developments in Yakima.

A one-hour special produced by Seattle's KOMO-TV and released within the past week is going viral in the Northwest.

City and county leaders say the property Northeast of the city sewage treatment plant and close to the Yakima Greenway pathway is the best area and that they'll use landscaping and rules to mitigate impacts to the area from homelessness.

It's set for 3:00 p.m. The council will hear from city officials about how services in the city are helping the homeless and they'll hear about two major housing projects.

SEATTLE (AP) — A couple of Seattle City Council members have gained the blessing of Mayor Ed Murray on a draft ordinance to impose a citywide income tax. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports Kshama Sawant and Lisa Herbold on Monday rolled out their proposal to put a 2 percent tax on income more than $250,000 for single filers and $500,000 for joint filers in Seattle...