Greg Kim

United States

Reporter at Seattle Times

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WA Supreme Court strikes down Spokane's tough homelessness ban

6 days ago | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless is supported by Campion Foundation, Raikes Foundation and Seattle Foundation. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over Project Homeless content. Washington’s Supreme Court has overturned a citizen-led initiative to make Spokane’s ban on public camping stricter. The case is a bit unusual because most court cases involving homeless camping bans center on the question of whether they violate a person’s constitutional rights.
King County braces for loss of federal program to help homeless people

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless is supported by Campion Foundation, Raikes Foundation and Seattle Foundation. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over Project Homeless content. Hundreds of formerly homeless people in King County may lose the means to pay rent beyond next year, the result of a pandemic-era program ending early.
Burien, WA cities keep tightening homeless camping bans

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless is supported by BECU, Campion Foundation, Raikes Foundation and Seattle Foundation. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over Project Homeless content. Burien created an outright prohibition on living outside in the city Monday. The city already had one of the most restrictive bans on camping, targeted toward homeless people, in the state.
Did you lose affordable housing in Seattle?

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless is supported by BECU, Campion Foundation, Raikes Foundation and Seattle Foundation. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over Project Homeless content. For many in Seattle, housing is less affordable now than ever. Rents in the city skyrocketed during the 2010s, forcing many to make a choice — pay way more for housing or move out. The Seattle Times wants to know if that happened to you. Did you lose access to affordable housing in the past decade?
Pedestrian killed in train collision in downtown Seattle

Jan 21, 2025 | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

By Seattle Times staff reporter A train hit and killed a pedestrian near Seattleās downtown waterfront Tuesday morning. The collision occurred at Broad Street and Alaskan Way, Seattle Fire Department posted on X at 10:05 a.m. The department shortly after said the pedestrian was dead. Seattle Police will conduct an investigation. The department has not yet determined why the collision occurred, Sergeant Patrick Michaud said. Greg Kim: 206-464-2532 or [email protected].
Homeless families increase as migrants did. So why not in King County?

Jan 3, 2025 | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

Federal officials connected record homelessness numbers in 2024 to the nation’s migrant crisis, pointing to a nearly 40% surge in family homelessness. King County also saw hundreds of migrant families arriving in recent years who became homeless, but its family homelessness numbers remained flat, according to the Point-In-Time count, a one-day snapshot of homelessness conducted last January.
Tell us what you think about unleashed dogs at Seattle parks

Dec 16, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

Seattle is famously a dog city. If you go to any of its parks, there’s a good chance you’ll see one running around with other dogs or playing fetch with its owners. Increasingly, those dogs might be unleashed in areas where the city says they shouldn’t be. The Seattle Times wants to know whether Seattle residents have noticed this trend — or if they care. Do you bring your dogs to parks unleashed? Do you walk your dogs on-leash at parks? Do you use the park for other reasons?
Seattle overhauled its homeless shelters. Did it work?

Dec 15, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

Seattle transformed its homeless shelters based on the theory that if they felt safer and more restful, more people would leave homelessness. Since 2017, the city has spent millions to convert crowded halls into private spaces, expand hours from overnight to 24/7 and add staffing, an overhaul more extensive than perhaps anywhere else in the country. The changes made more people want to enter shelters and stay, and helped them heal.
Seattle reduced disorder downtown. But it didn’t go far

Dec 9, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless is supported by BECU, Campion Foundation, Raikes Foundation and Seattle Foundation. The Seattle Times maintains editorial control over Project Homeless content. For more than a year after Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his Downtown Activation Plan, it seemed like nothing would work. He threw the kitchen sink at making downtown Seattle look cleaner and feel safer for tourists, workers, and shoppers.
Mother, 26, killed while trying to flag down help in Puyallup

Dec 8, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

A vehicle struck and killed a 26-year-old woman who was apparently seeking help after her car broke down late Saturday in Puyallup. Puyallup police said the Tacoma woman was traveling with her two young children when her car broke down in a parking lot. On South Meridian, a four-lane road, a northbound vehicle struck her “in the lane of travel,” according to police. The driver was a 31-year-old Puyallup man who immediately stopped and called 911.