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Archived News Releases

Archived Media Coverage (2000 - 2006)

News Releases

Downtown Emergency Service Center wins Maxwell Award for Excellence - (January 28, 2008)

17th Maxwell Awards for Excellence - (January 25, 2008)

2008

A Long Engagement: Readers' Choice Award s Finalist for Special-Needs Housing [DESC's Evan's House] - Affordable Housing Finance (August 2008)

Press Release: Cantwell Commends Local Efforts to Help Provide Affordable Housing (June 11, 2008)

Learning To House the Homeless - HUD Research Works (June 2008)
Phoenix may use Seattle program to battle homelessness - The Arizona Republic (May 23, 2008)
Seattle Woman Studies Anthropology of Homelessness - KUOW radio (May 12, 2008)
Opinion: Give them homes - USA Today (April 29, 2008)

Seattle offers a place for homeless to call home - even to drink - Philadelphia Inquirer (February 25, 2008)

Should taxpayers pay to house chronic alcoholics? - KING5 TV - Up Front with Robert Mak (February 23, 2008)

In Housing We Trust - Opinion - Seattle Times (February 1, 2008)

Congrats to DESC - The Stranger Slog (January 30, 2008)

Study Demonstrates Effectiveness of Housing First - National Alliance to End Homelessness Online News (January 15, 2008)

Housing First Model Saves City Millions of Dollars - KUOW radio (January 10, 2008)

Mayor's Press Conference: Housing First 2 Year Impact - Seattle Channel (January 9, 2008)

Mayor: Seattle's 'Housing First" for addicts saves money - KING5 TV [including video] (January 9, 2008)

Chronic alcoholic program reports progress - Seattle Times (January 9, 2008)

Housing homeless saves money - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 9, 2008)

Seattle P-I Editorial - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 9, 2008)

Seattle saved $3.2 million by housing most difficult homeless - Associated Press (January 9, 2008)

Housing First for the Chronically Homeless Mentally Ill - HUD Research Works (December2007/January 2008)

2007

Downtown becomes too pricey for disabled homeless - Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (December 7, 2007)

This Land: On the Bottle, Off the Streets, Halfway There - New York Times (November 11, 2007)

"Apartments welcome homeless alcoholics:
Experimental apartment building in Seattle welcomes homeless alcoholics; project saves money" - ABC via the Associated Press (June 18, 2007)

"Housing Alcoholics" - multimedia presentation - Associated Press (June 18, 2007)

"If We Say No, How Can We Ask Anyone to Say Yes?: Ignorance and fear are driving a NIMBY effort against housing for the mentally ill. Knowledge and understanding can stop it" - Opinion - Real Change News (May 9, 2007)

"New National Approach Focuses on Chronically Homeless: An experiment in Seattle" - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS (April 27, 2007)

"Is letting them drink working?: Residents, neighbors and experts say results are promising, but full study awaits" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (April 25, 2007)

"Fight crime, addiction with housing" - Opinion - Seattle Times (February 15, 2007)