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A compassionate policy is reducing street homelessness in Burien, Washington.

A compassionate policy is reducing street homelessness in Burien, Washington.

Burien, Washington, a working-class city of 50,000 near Seattle, has adopted a new approach to homelessness. Like all cities in the Puget Sound region, Burien has struggled with chronic homelessness, addiction, and public camping in recent years. But this spring, after increasi…