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Group finds a site for its tiny-house village

Written July 11th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 19 responses.

Creating Housing Coalition has let people know where it intends to build Hub City Village, its proposed community of about two dozen tiny houses for people who otherwise would likely be homeless.

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Homeless and the quest for Hub City Village

Written January 28th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 17 responses.

As happens every few months, there was talk about the homeless before the Albany City Council this week. Someone from the public, a board member of Creating Housing Coalition, brought it up.

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Hazelwood Park: What about the trees?

Written April 8th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 7 responses.

Even in spring, before the oaks have leafed out, the first thing you notice in Albany’s Hazelwood Park is the dense stand of mature oaks and Douglas firs. The city council may declare the property surplus, and one question will be what happens to the trees.

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Hub City Village: To house Albany ‘unhoused’

Written July 31st, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 18 responses.

How about this: A community of small cottages, each with room for one or two people, clustered on maybe an acre or so, with rents low enough that some of Albany’s residents with very small incomes could live there without fear of being thrown out on the street?

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