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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.

Posted in: Commentary, News
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

Council stymied in allocating housing cash

Written October 12th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

The Albany City Council lacked sufficient votes Wednesday to allocate part of the $1 million the city got from the state to spend toward easing various housing problems including homelessness.

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Tags: Albany, Creating Housing Coalition, DevNW, Habiitat for Humanity, homeless, houusing, legislature, million dollars, state grant

Tough choice: Who gets part of $1 million?

Written September 8th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

Maybe it wasn’t a favor for the legislature to give Albany $1 million to do something about affordable housing or homelessness. Now the city council has to decide who gets some of the money, and it’s not an easy choice.

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Tags: $1million, affordable housing, Albany housing, apartments, homeless, homeless shelter, homelessness, housing, Hub City Village

City vacates street to help Helping Hands

Written August 24th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Three members of the Albany City Council plus the mayor Wednesday pushed through a move to vacate or abandon a short section of Jefferson Street, an action the Helping Hands homeless shelter needs to expand.

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Tags: Albany City Council, Helping Hands, homeless, Jefferson Street, street vacation

Portable toilets: Council renews the debate

Written July 27th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

The portable toilet outside First Christian Church in Albany was the focus once again as the city council engaged in another round of talk about it on Wednesday.

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Tags: Albany council, First Christian Church, homeless, portable toilets, public restrooms

Unhoused in cars: Looking for a place to park

Written July 18th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

People forced to camp in their cars because of homelessness are largely gone from the block of Ninth Avenue in Albany where the city has banned them. It’s not clear where they have gone, and an advocate’s plea for city council help regarding parking so far has generated no response.

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Tags: Albany homeless, Helping Hands, homeless, Ninth Avenue, overnight parking