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kes action. GET INVOLVED: GET INVOLVED: SIGN UP FOR E-NEWS DONATE NOW BECOME A MEMBER Menu What You Can Do What We Do About Resources Blog Members Volunteer Donate Menu What You Can Do What We Do About Resources Blog Members Volunteer Donate Register for our Annual Membership Meeting! Membership Meetings are welcoming spaces for service providers, advocates, and supportive community members to come together to learn about program updates, act on advocacy opportunities, and share resources with each other! Learn about how you can get involved on the 3rd Thursday of every month. This special 2-Hour Meeting will take place on Thursday, May 16th at 9am on Zoom, and will discuss the new(ish) Summer EBT program, announce Board elections, and celebrate our past year’s programming and advocacy work as we are about to turn 45! If you are a member of the Coalition on Homelessness, this is a meeting you won’t want to miss! Register for our annual membership meeting Community Briefing: Advocacy for Unhoused WA Residents – Review the Recording and Learn How to Take Action This conversation, co-hosted by ACLU-WA and Northwest Justice Project, presents an overview of current lawsuits that threaten further punishment of people living homeless, service provider reflections on how laws that punish, banish, fine, arrest, or jail affect their unhoused clients, and recommendations for how community members can advocate for their unhoused neighbors. review our community Briefing Want to take a closer look at Johnson v City of Grants Pass? Take a look at an amicus brief we signed on to that details our objections to the criminalization of people living homeless. Review the amicus brief Coalition on Homelessness sues Burien Over Unconstitutional Ordinance Represented by the Northwest Justice Project (NJP), the lawsuit charges the City of Burien with violating the Washington Constitution by adopting a vague and almost incomprehensible ordinance that criminalizes the status of being homeless, inflicts cruel and unusual punishment, and deprives individuals of due process. It shouldn’t be a crime to be human and homeless,” said Alison Eisinger, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness. Burien is better than this. We want to repeal this unjust law that effectively bans homeless individuals from living in Burien. This law is the opposite of helpful.” Read the full Press release * A December 2021 report from King County’s Department of Community and Human Services estimates that about 40,300 people experienced homelessness through the course of 2020. This number is an estimate based on several sources, and corresponds with the general understanding that three times as many people go through the crisis of homelessness as are counted during the point in time count. The Coalition on Homelessness coordinated the One Night Count” of people without homes or shelter as a community assessment and organizing project from 1979 through January 2016. Download a pdf of our poster showing the most recent decade of data (January 2007 through January 2016) we gathered. footer low nav & copyright Contact Us © 2024 Seattle/King County Coalition on...