A new twist on tiny homes HONG KONG: When Lau Kai Fai, his wife and teenage son moved into a new Hong Kong flat last month, he thought the 290 sq ft of space in his “module home” felt like “winning the lottery”. Among the first Hong Kong residents to move into such prefabricated dwellings,…
Progress Report – September 2020 Friends, Here are some updates,news items and resources from our research and outreach since our last progress report. Astoria Warming Center. Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization (CCO), distributor of federal Medicaid funds in our region, approved the AWC grant application to hire an Executive Director and to double the paid…
Astoria Planning Commission (including Emergency Shelters) – August 25, 2020 This is the meeting where the continued work on a proposal to update the Development Code regarding temporary Shelters was tabled. An automatically generated transcript is available here. The unapproved minutes are in the September 22, 2020 agenda packet and are extracted here. The audio…
Progress Report – August 2020 Friends, Here are some updates,news items and resources from our research and outreach since our last progress report. Update on Friends House. We now have all three bedrooms filled, providing secure housing for three individuals! They appreciate so much moving into a furnished house. I wish you could see their…
Emergency shelter secures funds for virus outreach – July 29, 2020 The Astoria Warming Center is receiving help from the state to provide coronavirus-related education and resources to Clatsop County’s homeless population. The warming center was one of more than 170 community-based organizations across the state to receive a grant from the federal CARES Act…
Astoria Planning Commission (including Emergency Shelters) – July 28, 2020 The unapproved minutes are in the August agenda packet and are extracted here. The pages related to the proposed shelter code update in the agenda packet are here. Planner Barbara Fryer’s PowerPoint slide set is available here. And finally, the Astoria staff submitted a supplemental…
Progress Report – July 2020 Friends, Here are some updates,news items and resources from our research and outreach since our last progress report. Update on Friends House. We now have our first two renters living in the house! Both are employed.They have both been through Helping Hands and want to maintain a “clean & sober”…
‘We’re going to have to work together’ | Sacramento to fund 500 tiny homes for self-governing homeless sites SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento city leaders and homeless activists who previously butted heads on issues of solving homelessness found common ground Monday through SafeGround, a community led organization dedicated to providing homeless with a safe, self-governing site…
This New York Program Is Getting Ahead of Homelessness “Founded in 2004, Homebase is a neighborhood-based grassroots program that merges knowledge of the community’s services with state funds to help those in danger of becoming homeless before they lose a home or other living arrangements. The group, which has 26 locations in New York’s five…
New mental health center opens in Astoria – June 24, 2020 A new organization led by an advocate for the homeless hopes to fill a gap in addressing mental illness in Astoria. Beacon Clubhouse, funded through the Clatsop County branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and based out of the First Baptist Church…