Report: Seattle has nation's largest homeless population outside of New York, Los Angeles

by GEOFF MULVIHILL , Associated Press

Mon, December 17th 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

File - In this May 24, 2018, file photo, a man sleeps on the sidewalk as people behind line-up to buy lunch at a Dick's Drive-In restaurant in Seattle. A new federal report says the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and San Diego, fell this year, suggesting possible success in those cities' efforts to combat the problem. Meanwhile, homelessness overall was up slightly across the country, including Seattle, although the report did not provide a complete picture of the problem. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo, Mayor Eric Garcetti, top, get a tour from John Maceri, executive director of The People Concern, the facility's contracted nonprofit operator of a downtown "Bridge Home," first of what is planned to be a citywide network of temporary housing sites for homeless people at a news conference in Los Angeles. A new federal report says the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and San Diego, two epicenters of a West Coast homelessness crisis, fell this year, suggesting possible success in those cities' efforts to combat the problem. Homelessness overall was up slightly across the country, although the report did not provide a complete picture of the problem. (AP Photo/Ariel Tu, File)

File - In this Dec. 1, 2017, file photo, Verna Vasbinder prepares her new bunk in the city's new Temporary Bridge Shelter for the homeless as her dog, Lucy Lui, looks on in San Diego. A new federal report says the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and San Diego, two epicenters of a West Coast homelessness crisis, fell this year, suggesting possible success in those cities' efforts to combat the problem. Homelessness overall was up slightly across the country, although the report did not provide a complete picture of the problem. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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File - In this May 24, 2018, file photo, a man sleeps on the sidewalk as people behind line-up to buy lunch at a Dick's Drive-In restaurant in Seattle. A new federal report says the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and San Diego, fell this year, suggesting possible success in those cities' efforts to combat the problem. Meanwhile, homelessness overall was up slightly across the country, including Seattle, although the report did not provide a complete picture of the problem. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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