About 170 asylum-seeking refugees living at a camp in Kent have been moved into temporary housing over the course of a week.
About 170 asylum-seeking refugees living at a camp in Kent have been moved into temporary housing over the course of a week, officials with
Grant said the recent move of the 170 refugees was funded with about $1.2 million in funding through King County. He described it as a temporary move meant to fill the gap while LIHI, its partners and refugees wait for a state program to begin this fall. NEW: 170 refugees in the Kent camp have been moved into temp housing using state funding, but ~50 remain on Central Avenue.He asked the public to “call the city to approve, through LIHI, other rooms so that those of us who remain here can also leave this camp.”
“One of the challenges is that for a lot of federally subsidized housing, they’ll be ineligible until their asylum status is confirmed by the U.S. ,” he said. Health officials distinguish between active TB disease and inactive infections as they said the latter has no risk of spreading. “There’s been outbreaks of COVID-19, we know of at least one case of tuberculosis,” he said. “And we have tried to prioritize people based on their medical needs for the housing assistance that we have, but we know that there are people there that still have pretty serious medical issues that we were not able to serve.
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