What you will not find in Seattle today is a single solution to its housing crisis, which, for the past 20 years of rapid capital growth, has expanded its population of homeless humans. The reason why ...

The return of the slum in rich Western cities is becoming inevitable. The increasing number of people living in RVs is a sure sign of its recrudesce in Seattle, a city that has no real memory of slums ...

As Mayor Jenny Durkan pushes her plan to bring tiny home villages to Seattle, one activist is speaking up, claiming they’re more akin to “slave shacks” than proper homes to house our most vulnerable. ...

Drug-addled streets are becoming more commonplace in major liberal U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Portland. In Seattle, scenes of addiction have spread to neighborhoods where ...

With press conferences and protests, Seattle City Councilmembers and tenants rights activists helped make the apartment complex at 6511 Rainier Avenue South the most scorned building in the city. They ...

The history of public housing -- from overcrowded slums, unsanitary firetraps and crime-ridden "projects" to handsome buildings that lift neighborhood property values -- is also the history of how ...

BELLAGIO, Italy — Un-Habitat suggests that within the next 30 years, one in every three inhabitants of our globe will live in the “slums” of the world’s exploding cities, most located in Africa, Asia ...