Legislature making progress on bills addressing homelessness

Washington state lawmakers are making progress on legislation to “address the crisis” of homelessness, Democratic legislative leaders said Tuesday.

Several bills are expected to move forward in the House and Senate that will “continue to move us in the direction where we are taking care of people who are experiencing homelessness,” state Rep. Monica Stonier said at a press conference.

“This is a problem that’s going to continue to take our time and attention. The scope of this problem is certainly outpacing our solutions that we have been able to bring forward,” said Stonier, the Vancouver Democrat who is House Majority Floor Leader.

Gov. Jay Inslee has proposed spending more than $300 million to add 2,100 shelter beds and take other steps to reduce homelessness. On a per-capita basis, Washington ranks fifth in the nation in unsheltered homeless individuals, with about 10,000 people on any given night living outside or in places unfit for human habitation, according to the state.


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