Options for the Homeless

Each day thousands of people in Seattle need a place to eat and sleep.  There are numerous homeless shelters throughout the Seattle area, although the number of shelters and soup kitchens available are not nearly enough to feed everyone.  Thousands of people remain on the streets every night.  Here’s what’s available out there.

Seattle Food Bank Resource Directory:

http://www.cityofseattle.net/humanservices/csd/survivalservices/emergencyfood/foodbanks.htm#all

Where are the homeless shelters?

Shelters are available throughout Seattle.  These shelters range from temporary shelter serving individuals for one night at a time to transitional housing helping people move off of the streets, find a permanent home, and rejoin the work force.

Seattle Crisis Resource Directory – Homeless Shelters

http://www.scn.org/crisis/shelters.html

So who do these Resources serve?

Annual shelter population by type in Seattle

Shelter population by Gender in Seattle:  October, 1999

Persons in transitional housing in Seattle:  October 1999

Total number of persons receiving shelter on a given day

(Assumes 4400 total homeless persons in Seattle)

YES

NO

TOTAL

2579 (58.6%)

1811 (41.4%)

4400

(Source:  Seattle Voices – homeless statistics.

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/seastats.html)