Housing First This is an evidenced based approach to solving homelessness. In other words, it has been shown to actually work. From my experience, many programs claim to be housing first but are missing one key ingredient… actually providing housing first…. In my view…. I find the Mother Jones article on the housing first model…
Tiny Houses for the Homeless: An Affordable Solution Catches On On a Saturday in September, more than 125 volunteers showed up with tools in hand and built six new 16-by-20-foot houses for a group of formerly homeless men. It was the beginning of Second Wind Cottages, a tiny-house village for the chronically homeless in the…
Clatsop County Clatsop County Housing Strategies: Summary Report – 2019I include this housing strategies study not because it proposes a solution directed toward ending / reducing homelessness… instead I include this study because it has one paragraph describing the scope of the homelessness situation in the county and then lacks any targeted solutions. Why do…
In April of 2006 Oregon’s governor Ted Kulongoski signed Executive Order No. 06-05 creating the Ending Homelessness Advisory Council (EHAC). It was “housed” in the Department of Housing and Community Services (OHCS). In approximately 2015 (or as early as 2012) the council was dissolved. A HOME FOR HOPE – A 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness…