Oregon Housing and Community Solutions: Homelessness Prevention From their website, the Mission Statement includes: “We provide stable and affordable housing and engage leaders, to develop an integrated statewide policy that addresses poverty and provides opportunity for Oregonians.” And in the “What We Do:” “Oregon Housing and Community Services is Oregon’s housing finance agency, providing financial…
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness From their website, the About Us includes: The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) is the only federal agency with a sole mission focused on preventing and ending homelessness in America. The council consists of 19 federal agencies that help create and catalyze implementation of the Federal Strategic Plan…
National Alliance to End Homelessness This is a great resource! From their website, their Mission Statement includes: The National Alliance to End Homelessness is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to end homelessness in the United States. We use research and data to find solutions to homelessness; we work with federal and local…
Astoria’s Homelessness Solutions Task Force Meeting – November 18, 2021 Call to Order — Chief Spalding: https://youtu.be/_apsu_FU-A0?t=439 Rosters — Virtual Roll Call: https://youtu.be/_apsu_FU-A0?t=502 Mayor’s Welcome: https://youtu.be/_apsu_FU-A0?t=729 Introductions & New Members Approval of Minutes: https://youtu.be/_apsu_FU-A0?t=4242 New Minutes Format County Update — Monica Steele Homeless Liaison Supervisor Introduction — Viviana: https://youtu.be/_apsu_FU-A0?t=4345 Countywide Liaison Position Update — Viviana…
City of Gresham’s 2021 Council Work Plan – Housing & Houselessness Project The project background statement includes “Everyone deserves a secure and reliable place to call home. To address houselessness, the City will continue to explore new strategies, funding and partnerships. With support from the Joint Office of Homeless Services, Gresham’s Homeless Services team connects…
(1) 9/14/2021 original email to Councilor Herman (click to expand) Last Updated on September 16, 2021 Letter to Councilor Herman by Rick Bowers September 14, 2021 A PDF version of this letter is available here. Joan Herman, City Councilor City of Astoria 1095 Duane St. Astoria, OR 97103 I was thinking recently about some of…
Friends of the Unsheltered
How Communities are Building Systems to Reduce and End Homelessness From the National League of Cities (article by Community Solutions): Our work has always been dedicated to ending homelessness. But the complex nature of homelessness has challenged our notions of what it takes to solve it, over and over again. In 2014, our organization Community…
Group Housing Nelle Moffett’s succinct insight was “… I realized that the solution to homelessness is housing.” Unfortunately, Over the 2010-2016 time period, Oregon created only 63 new housing units for every 100 households that formed during the time period, increasing competition for housing.1 So the problem of the lack of affordable housing is getting…
Square One Villages, Eugene Dan Bryant from Square One Villages in Eugene, Oregon presented their progress on tiny houses. The first video is from his presentation at the First United Methodist Church on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. The second video is his talk at the Homelessness Solutions Task (HOST) force the following morning, Thursday, July…