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Adrian Anthony moves some of his belongings to another area four blocks away after the encampment where he was living under the I-5 overpass was swept on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in the Ravenna neighborhood of Seattle. Anthony estimated that a sweep caused him to move from one area to another around 20 times.

Why do so many people live in tents and RVs in Seattle?

Anna Boiko-Weyrauch

Health

The Cowlitz County Jail was one of the jails identified as having a disproportionate number of deaths in a new report by Columbia Legal Services.

Locking up mentally ill, drug addicted people results in jail deaths, new report says

Austin Jenkins

KUOW Newsroom

Fort Lawton at night. The homes pictured here are on another part of the former Ft Lawton. They were sold at market rate to private buyers in 2015. Zillow places the current value of these homes at over 2 million dollars. In contrast, homes built in another part of the old fort by non-profits like Habitat for Humanity will be affordable for lower income families. Other housing will be for formerly homeless people.

Fort Lawton has just a few hoops left to get affordable housing

Joshua McNichols

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