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(The Center Square) – Seattle’s infamous Third Avenue corridor will see more homeless and drug addiction services available next year as the Downtown Emergency Service Center announced three ...
(The Center Square) – King County and Seattle plan to use a combined $134 million to pay for the construction of 1,600 affordable homes. Seattle announced it is using $108 million toward ...
The Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) is a non-profit organization in Seattle, Washington, providing services for that city's homeless population. [1] The organization was founded in 1979 to aid men and women living in a state of chronic homelessness who, due to their severe and persistent mental and addictive illnesses, were not being served by the existing shelters at the time.
The name "Skid Road" was in use in Seattle by the 1850s when the city's historic Pioneer Square neighborhood began to expand from its commercial core. [7] The first homeless person in Seattle was a Massachusetts sailor named Edward Moore, who was found in a tent on the waterfront in 1854.
Ballard Community Center, 6020 28th Avenue NW, (206) 684-4093 Green lake Community Center, 7201 E Green Lake Drive N, (206)684-0780 Laurelhurst Community Center, 4554 NE 41st Street, (206) 684-7529
By June 1971, unemployment in the Seattle area spiked from 2.9% to 13.1%. Realizing that hunger was one of the most significant problems facing Seattle and beyond, The Ministry partnered with two other organizations to organize a food bank system, originally known as Neighbors in Need. In October 1970, they opened 34 food banks, originally ...