King County struggling to find solutions to keep homeless off the streets permanently

Where do people suffering from addiction and homelessness go, after they enter the health care system and no longer require medical care?

Kathryn Driscoll, a Tacoma area nursing home social worker, has no place to put two formerly homeless, drug-addicted men, now that they’re too healthy to be in the nursing home.

“They’re at this point where they’ve progressed, and they’re doing so well, that they need to make that next step. And the hope was that we would be able to partner with the DSHS (Department of Social and Health Services) to find them alternate housing,” Driscoll said on the Gee and Ursula Show on KIRO NewsRadio. “But

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