Can the Arts Address Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis in a Meaningful Way? Seattle Symphony Is Trying

The Seattle Symphony’s Simple Gifts project (including Charles Ives’s New England Holidays) shares the bill with Emmanuel Ax on Thurs Feb 2 and Sat Feb 4 at Benaroya Hall. IVORY

At last count, more than 4,000 people sleep on the streets of Seattle every night. Thousands more live in transitional or insecure housing, while others couch surf or sleep in cars. Anyone with two eyes, a heart, and a view of a tent city wants to do something about our housing crisis, which only grows more vexing considering the growing list of national crises demanding urgent attention with every passing hour of Trump’s reign of terror.