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July 29, 2022
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Union Gospel Mission Helps Homeless Community Stay Cool During Seattle’s Heat Wave

Jonathan Choe
July 29, 2022
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Scorching Hot Week

Incredible effort RIGHT NOW by Seattle’s homeless outreach community. Especially @SeattlesUGM. This faith based group is mobilizing volunteers and hitting the streets, passing out water and supplies. They’ve got some PRO TIPS if you want to help.

Pro Tips

If you run into a homeless person on the street during HEAT WAVE, @SeattlesUGM says be ready with following: 1) Bottles of water 2) Gift card to an air-conditioned restaurant Contact UGM if you think someone is ready to get off streets.

https://www.ugm.org/contact/

Cooling Centers

@KC_RHA also has a solid list of places to refer homeless folks.

https://kcrha.org/severe-weather-update/

Working on Story

Also dropping next week, RARE look into extremely vital work @SeattlesUGM is doing on Seattle’s streets. They call this faith in action. I have seen a lot covering the homeless crisis in this city, but they got me beat. RAW look at realities but also the HOPE.

Jonathan Choe

Journalist and Senior Fellow, Center on Wealth and Poverty
Jonathan Choe is a journalist and Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth and Poverty, covering homelessness issues for its Fix Homelessness initiative. Prior to joining Discovery, Choe spent several years as one of the lead reporters at KOMO-TV, consistently the top rated television station in Seattle. His in depth stories on crime and deep dive investigations into the homeless crisis led to measurable results in the community, including changes in public policy. Choe has more than two decades of experience in television news behind the scenes and in front of the camera for ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and Tribune. He has also been nominated and honored with multiple industry awards including an Emmy. Choe spent several years teaching classes on emerging media and entrepreneurship to under privileged youth in inner city Chicago. As an independent journalist, Choe also contributes regularly to the Mill Creek View and Lynnwood Times and has reported on exclusive stories in the past year for Daily Wire and The Postmillennial.