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Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital ChronicleThousands of people statewide have been at least temporarily housed through Project Turnkey, an Oregon program that turned $125 million into nearly 1,400 new shelter beds, mostly by buying and converting existing hotels and other vacant buildings into shelters. -
Jane Vaughan/JPRDan Cano is now the executive director of Opportunities for Housing, Resources, and Assistance, known as OHRA.
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Many California cities offer their homeless residents one-way bus tickets to other places. -
Hunger rates plummeted in Oregon in the years leading up to the pandemic, but then COVID hit and during the following two years, the number of Oregonians struggling to put food on the table rose, a recently released Oregon State University study found. -
Homeless Californians face many barriers to casting a ballot, even in elections that affect their lives. Some counties and nonprofits are trying to boost turnout. -
The site near downtown will house 17 small buildings, ranging from 64 to 100 square feet, where homeless people can live. -
Portland-based Disability Rights Oregon has sent two letters to Grants Pass officials, saying its new rules on homeless campsites violate federal and state law. -
The city鈥檚 solution of two campsites has received criticism from a variety of groups. -
More than two-dozen California cities passed, strengthened or are considering ordinances that penalize people for sleeping outside, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed cities to crack down. -
More Oregonians were food insecure, couldn鈥檛 afford groceries or outright skipped meals in 2023, compared to 2020. That鈥檚 according to an annual U.S. Department of Agriculture household food security report released Wednesday.
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Humboldt County Supervisors agreed to send a letter to San Francisco鈥檚 mayor on Tuesday about a program that鈥檚 allegedly been bussing homeless people to their county. -
The June U.S. Supreme Court ruling frees up cities to enforce their public camping rules. Many are now reviewing those regulations. -
The City of Roseburg is considering whether to punish some camping code violations with jail time. -
Housing and homelessness are top of mind as California lawmakers wrap up their 2024 legislative session.
