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A national PBS host stepped in to save a center serving unhoused people in Lynnwood after a local reporter, funded by a state initiative, covered its potential closure.

MyLynnwoodNews published a series of stories last year about the Lynnwood Hygiene Center's planned closure when the building it was using was slated to be sold.

PBS host Rick Steves, who lives in Edmonds, said he didn't even know the center existed until he read one of those articles.

In December, he spent $2 million to help buy the building so the hygiene center could continue to operate.

I'm excited that we can give our homeless community, our neighbors who happen to be homeless, dignity, a haircut, a shower, a place to wash their clothes, some clothes, a hot lunch.

MyLynwoodNews reporter, Angelica Relente's position was created through the state funded WSU Murrow News Fellowship.

Relente says her story that got Steves' attention was the product of months of relationship building with people at the Jean Kim Foundation, which runs the center.

The way I covered, reported on everything might have been different.

Might have been looking at it more with an outsider lens, but with having that connection with the people there, and knowing how the Hygiene Center worked, gave me a better perspective and more understanding on what would happen if it was to go away.

Relente says someone who used the services at the Hygiene Center recently told her they weren't sure if they would have survived without the help in the past.

I'm frustrated by the political and economic environment in our county, because we're the richest society in the world.

We should be able to handle this without me having to buy this piece of property.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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