The topics of homelessness and affordable housing were common themes during Tuesday night’s Edmonds City Council meeting. The council heard from Lynnwood City Council President M. Christopher Boyer on what Edmonds’ neighbor to the north is doing to address those issues and had a joint discussion with the Edmonds Planning Board about council priorities for housing during the next several years.
The Lynnwood City Council formed a task group on homelessness and “we began by listening to city employees whose work was regularly impacted by our homeless neighbors,” Boyer said, along with social service agencies and “homeless people themselves to find out what was on their mind and in their hearts — what they needed.”
Boyer said the council task group learned quickly that there is no one profile of who is homeless in South Snohomish County, and they include men, women, children, entire families — “folks who have terrific educations, folks who didn’t get out of high school.”
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