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pack psi.org. Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning

with today's top stories. It's Wednesday, May 6th. I'm going to go ahead and start today's show with a

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and thank you. Our top story today, and I'll start it off with a question, should Seattle allow

tiny house villages to grow much bigger to help more

unhoused people? Today, an important city council committee said yes. Joshua McNichols has our story.

Right now, a tiny house village or an RV safe lot can't house more than 100 people. But Mayor Katie

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