The proposal is the second effort by the Trump Administration to prohibit any federal housing help to families in which some members are eligible and others are not.

Girmay Zahilay and Claudia Balducci know they need to get the most out of every dollar spent on homelessness. They have different priorities.

The refugee families previously lived in an encampment on a field next to a motel in Kent. They are now in a Quality Inn on Tacoma’s South Hosmer Street.

The city will offer a short-term lease to a sanctioned homeless encampment after a plan to move fell apart.

Seattle has dozens of small mutual-aid programs running at any given time. But Shutts’ operation became a flashpoint on the city’s tolerance of such efforts.