WA found a better way to remove homeless encampments. Will it stick?
Local governments have long removed tents and encampments. They have also long provided subsidized housing to formerly homeless people. But the two rarely went hand-in-hand. Since 2022, Washington has closed 47 encampments in five counties, bringing more than 70% of people from them – 1,200 people – inside…The state’s Encampment Resolution Program [is] a new approach that avoids scattering people cleared off the sides of highways and instead puts them in state-funded shelters and housing. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Ivy Ceballo)
WA women 9th in nation for breast cancer diagnoses, analysis finds
Washington women were more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer despite receiving fewer mammograms than the national average in recent years, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. About 137 women per 100,000 Washington residents were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2017 and 2021, the ninth-highest rate in the nation. But only 64% of the state’s women ages 40 and older received mammograms from 2021 to 2022, putting Washington at the 10th-lowest screening rate in the country. Continue reading at The WA State Standard. (Getty Images)
Are WA schools ready for earthquakes? We don’t know
Hundreds of public schools across Washington are located in areas where they could suffer damage in a major earthquake. But more than a decade after the state set out to evaluate school seismic risks, the information is difficult to access and harder to verify. In the past school year, more than 378,000 students attended schools with buildings constructed before the adoption of modern seismic codes and that have no risk evaluations or retrofits, according to data from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction obtained through a public records request. The majority of seismic risk data collected by school districts and the state is not shared with the public. Continue reading at Crosscut. (Grace Deng)
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Are WA schools ready for earthquakes? We don’t know