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 article entitled, “Creating Systems that Work”…
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 little onerous,” Kander tells PEOPLE. “I…
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 crisis has multiple components: a homelessness…
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 continuum of care network. We contacted…
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 the SquareOne Villages using tiny homes.…
Homelessness is Solvable Here is a summary of an inspiring interview of Rosanne Haggerty, the founder of Community Solutions, by Malcolm Gladwell which aired on the podcast called “Solvable.” A link to the podcast is provided at the end of the summary. —Nelle Moffett By Anna Kim, June 7, 2019 – 10:47am “There are communities…
Letter to Astoria City Council regarding the Comprehensive Plan On July 15th Rick Bowers asked the Astoria City Council to update the city’s Comprehensive Plan to reflect the needs of the homeless (as has been done in other Oregon cities). The Comprehensive Plan is the vision that guides the overall direction of the city. Specifically,…
Progress Report 8/06/2019 This past month, we have continued to focus on identifying potential sources of funding and related start-up essentials for the drop-in Resource Center. (1) We met with Jessica Newhall at SBDC who pointed us to a template for developing a Business Plan. We shared our first draft with her and received some…
Warming Center – Letters of Support The Astoria Warming Center is scheduled to present on June 25th at the Planning Commission public hearing for the extension of AWC’s Conditional Use Permit. The meeting starts at 6:30pm at City Hall. Since there are no changes in operation of the Warming Center this past season, we expect…