Greg Kim

United States

Reporter at Seattle Times

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Seattle’s affordable housing industry is in crisis. City faces tough choices

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | David Kroman |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. Late last year, one of Seattle’s most vaunted affordable housing providers put six buildings up for sale. A few months later, another nonprofit listed four of its eight. Then, another developer gave up its stake in all three of its affordable properties in Seattle.
In the streets and even on a ferry, Seattle crowds proclaim 'No Kings'

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Nicholas Deshais |Greg Kim |Caitlyn Freeman |Alex Halverson

In downtown Seattle, aboard a Washington state ferry and at dozens of other “No Kings” rallies across the Pacific Northwest, tens of thousands of protesters raised their voices Saturday in a public rebuke of President Donald Trump’s hard-line policies. Nationally, organizers estimated 2,000 protests were calling for Trump to be “dethroned,” saying he has wielded his presidential authority like a monarch, not an elected leader, according to the 50501 Movement.
Despite success, WA cuts funding for homeless encampment removal program

2 weeks 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 state is taking a step back from resolving homeless encampments despite protests from Seattle and King County officials. In the most recent budget, state lawmakers reduced funding for the Encampment Resolution Program, which will halt its work removing additional encampments.
Judge blocks Trump administration's new homelessness, transit conditions on King County

3 weeks 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. King County notched a win in its lawsuit against the Trump administration Tuesday after a federal judge temporarily blocked the federal government from imposing new conditions on homelessness and transit funding.
One of WA’s strictest homeless camping bans can stand, court says

1 month 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. The King County Superior Court ruled this month that Burien’s homeless camping ban does not violate the state constitution, a blow to advocates who hoped Washington’s courts could restore protections to homeless people that the U.S. Supreme Court had taken away.
Seattle’s only homeless RV parking lot makes way for pickleball complex

1 month 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. Seattle’s only parking lot for homeless people living in their RVs closed this month to make way for a three-story pickleball complex. The nonprofit operating the lot says it hopes to reopen at a new location soon.
As lease deadline approaches, Seattle homeless camp may have nowhere to go

1 month ago | spokesman.com | Greg Kim

A plan to move a sanctioned homeless encampment in Seattle appears to have fallen apart at the last minute, eliciting finger-pointing from public officials. Leaders of the encampment say barring a quick resolution they will move to an unsanctioned location on Saturday. More than 100 people including 17 children live at Tent City 4, a self-managed community outside the Seattle Mennonite Church in the Lake City neighborhood, where they’ve been for the past year. Their lease expires Saturday.
As lease deadline approaches, Seattle homeless camp may have nowhere to go

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

A plan to move a sanctioned homeless encampment in Seattle appears to have fallen apart at the last minute, eliciting finger-pointing from public officials. Leaders of the encampment say barring a quick resolution they will move to an unsanctioned location on Saturday. More than 100 people including 17 children live at Tent City 4, a self-managed community outside the Seattle Mennonite Church in the Lake City neighborhood, where they’ve been for the past year. Their lease expires Saturday.
Seattle police chief apologizes for nude beach response as tensions build

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | David Kroman |Greg Kim

A police response earlier this week to a locally famous nude beach on the shores of Lake Washington has brought into sharp relief the ongoing tension between the park’s history as a safe place for people in the LGBTQ+ community and its wealthy neighbors frustrated by how it’s being used. The response Sunday, coupled with a lawsuit filed against the city by nearby residents, has reignited a fight over the park’s future.
2 stabbed at Seattle’s Hing Hay Park; 1 in critical condition

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Greg Kim

Two people were stabbed Saturday night in Seattle’s Hing Hay Park, with one man transported to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition after being slashed in the neck, according to Seattle police. The suspect was at large and police advised people to stay away from the area. Seattle police received a call about the stabbing and arrived on the scene at 8:42 p.m. between King and Jackson streets. By then, the suspect had left.