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This is seattle but it's going on nationwide. Another of the many ways immigrants, legal and illegal, kill americans.
Deaths among King County’s homeless reach new high amid growing crisis
dec 30 2017 The toll of the region’s homelessness crisis has been building since early in the year.
By April, the list of people who died while homeless or without a verifiable address reached 48. In September, it passed 93, the previous year’s total.
By the close of November, the King County medical examiner’s list reached 133, surpassing the previous high of 111 from 2006.
The list is a grim indicator of what many people living without shelter and those involved in the region’s fight against homelessness both acknowledge: For all the progress made toward the goal of making homelessness “rare, brief and one-time,” the reality on the streets remains stubbornly unchanged.
With an estimated snapshot count of 11,643 — more than 5,000 of whom were living outdoors during the annual survey — King County has the third-largest concentration in the nation of people living in homelessness.
Major cities across the West Coast are experiencing similar problems, with yearly increases in Portland, Los Angeles and San Diego.