There is an interesting Capitol Chat on homelessness in the community of Olympia. Check it out here.

Here's an interesting question that someone submitted:

Eve, Centralia: In an earlier century, every locale operated a "poor farm" in which to house the unfortunate. Long regarded as a last resort, at least people made homeless by circumstances beyond their control were ensured a place for shelter and food. As we now seem determined to consign these people as street trash, couldn't we at least have the decency to operate "poor farms" again, allowing people some space in which to engage in helping themselves through gardens, communal livestock raising, etc.?

Is this a realistic possibility? It wouldn't have to be called a "poor farm," but it seems like there could be a better place to live than on the streets. Is anyone doing anything like this?