One hundred foster kids in King County have stayed in hotels over the past year because the state had no place to put them, a situation that Washington’s child-welfare secretary called “disastrous for children.”
Washington, which for years has been dealing with a severe shortage of foster parents and intensive therapeutic homes, has resorted to temporary hotel stays more often — there has been nearly a tenfold increase in such stays since 2015. The problem is especially acute in King County and counties to the north, where the overall number of nights in hotels was more than 1,000 between September 2017 and August 2018.
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