homeless

Albany picks site for homeless camping

Written June 6th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 24 responses.

No suprise: Albany’s official camp site for homeless people will be in a part of town that already has become something like Homeless Central.

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Tags: Albany homeless, camp site, homeless, homeless camping

Hub City Village plans to break ground

Written June 3rd, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 30 responses.

It was four years ago, in July 2019, that I first reported on Albany’s Creating Housing Coalition and its hopes of building a community of tiny houses for people who have no place else to live. Now the group is about to start building the place.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: bicycling, Creating Housing Coalition, homeless, Hub City Village, mentally ill, Oregon Health Authority

City’s homeless camp: Put it where?

Written May 26th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 36 responses.

Albany’s new city law authorizing officially permitted homeless camps passed the city council withhout opposition this week with one big question unanswered.

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Tags: city camps, city property, homeless, homeless camps, permitted camps

Council gets ordinance to allow camp sites

Written May 21st, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 15 responses.

In order to discourage homeless camps all over town and comply with a new state law, the Albany Police Department is asking the city council to authorize designated camping sites on public and church property.

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Tags: Albany municipal code, camp facilities, camp sites, camping, church property, homeless, public property

Albany working on proposal for tent cities

Written April 4th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 37 responses.

Hoping to prevent or at least to reduce illegal camping by the homeless, Albany city officials are working on a proposal to authorize temporary encampments in certain places such as church parking lots.

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Tags: Emergency Transition Housing, homeless, homeless camps, illegal camping, municipal code, tent cities

Oregon bill on housing and homeless falls short

Written March 11th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 32 responses.

Leaders in the Oregon legislature say they want to encourage more housing to be built and to reduce the number of homeless people. That’s what they say, but their legislation does nothing to achieve that goal.

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Tags: HB 2001, homeless, homeless camps, housing, land use, legislature

Council votes for three housing grants

Written October 26th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

It took a year for the Albany City Council to allocate part of the $1 million the Oregon legislature gave the city to do something about homelessness or the shortage of housing that people can afford.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: $1 million, affordable housing, Creating Housing Coalition, Habitat for Humanity, homeless, homelessness, housing grants, Jackson Street Youth Shelter, SB 5561