Last Updated on October 31, 2019 Theodore Thomas… said recently a friend, who was a freelance writer with a spotty income, was told his rent would increase to $500 per month. His apartment is 11-feet by 14-feet with a bathroom down the hall and no kitchen. This is outrageous. Subsequent to the rent increase, he…
Last Updated on October 29, 2019 See the new page showing the focus on homelessness by the city of Gresham, Oregon.
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Last Updated on October 31, 2019 Progress Report 10/7/2019 Friends, Here are some news items and more resources from September. Here is a successful example of a tiny home village created as transition housing for veterans. https://people.com/human-interest/hero-group-veterans-community-project-tiny-homes/. At the October HOST meeting, Chief Spalding presented a proposal for a county-wide resource coordinator, based on an…
Last Updated on October 1, 2019 Last fall, Jason Kander toured the Veterans Community Project, a Kansas City, Missouri-based non-profit that builds tiny houses for veterans. “I was amazed by it,” says Kander, former Missouri Secretary of State. “There were more obstacles to doing that quickly than I had expected. The process can be a…
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Last Updated on September 8, 2019 Capital Chatter: …homelessness I just read a great article in the Oregon Capital Insider regarding housing and homelessness. Here are a few snippets: “‘We have a housing crisis in America.’ Those are the words of Washington Congressman Denny Heck at the recent Oregon Housing Conference in Portland.” “The housing…
Last Updated on October 31, 2019 Progress Report 9/06/2019 This past month, we have initiated several trails of inquiry and action in connection to the drop-in Resource Center. The following report is what we have learned according to our understanding of very complex systems. 1.Our focus this month has been to connect with the HUD…
Last Updated on August 16, 2019 Progress Report 8/06/2019 This past month, we have initiated several trails of inquiry and action in addition to the drop-in Resource Center. (1) We have the beginnings of a website, called www.FriendsOfTheUnsheltered.org, where we can post and store relevant material. (2) Dan Bryant from Eugene gave two presentations on…
Last Updated on August 16, 2019 Dan Bryant of Eugene’s Square One Villages gave two talks about their tiny home projects. These are efforts to provide temporary shelter for the unsheltered as well as to provide permanent affordable housing (for retirees, etc.). If you missed the presentations you can see them here.