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Quixote Village is a two-acre community of 30 tiny homes for single homeless adults in Olympia, Washington. It is located in an industrial area, zoned as permanent supportive housing and leased from Thurston County for $1 per year. It was built in 2013 for a construction cost of $3.1 million, and includes a clubhouse with laundry and showers.
For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
LIHI is rooted in a commitment to advocacy for low-income and homeless people. LIHI's early emphases were providing advocacy and technical assistance to promote the interests of low-income and homeless people. LIHI worked to support the efforts of homeless individuals who established an emergency shelter in a "bus barn" at the Seattle Center in ...
The nonprofit received the third largest portion of funding from the King County Regional Homelessness Authority in 2024 with $15.6 million. ... Seattle’s infamous Third Avenue corridor will see ...
The Pierce County Council seems to be increasing its oversight on the Human Services Department after a blunder that nearly caused the collapse of a system that serves as the county’s “front ...
Commonstreet acts as the homelessness response management team for the City of Fife and for WSDOT’s Gateway program on Highway 167, which runs from Puyallup north into King County.
Thurston County is a founding member of the Timberland system, which was established as a pilot project in 1964 and made into a permanent intercounty rural library district in 1968. The county had previously been served by the South Puget Sound Regional Library, which was contracted to operate libraries in the cities of Lacey, Olympia, and Yelm.
Family Promise of Pierce County co-founder Jessica Pair said the new shelter was made possible by over $500,000 in combined grant funding from the county and the state, as well as donations.