What are we talking about when we talk about emergency shelter?
3 min readJun 23, 2021
Danny Westneat recently discussed debates about homelessness in Port Angeles, Washington and Seattle. In the column, he says that he has asked people living under bridges where they are from. But as someone who was homeless as a teenager in Port Angeles, and later in Seattle where I hoped to find a way off the streets and enroll in college, it does not matter where anyone is from…