Housing

On Tuesday, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek extended the state’s homelessness emergency that she enacted a year ago, following her inauguration. The extension will allow some new homeless shelters to remain open.

Opportunities for Housing, Resources & Assistance Executive Director Cass Sinclair visits the JX with details for the Southern Oregon Homelessness Summit, accompanied by City of Ashland Housing Program Manager Linda Reid.

The state housing agency still can’t reliably say how many Oregonians were helped, the report found.

California lawmakers made an effort in 2023 to remove red tape around building new houses.

Homeowner Assistance and Reconstruction Program program is administered by Oregon Housing and Community Services, and is earmarked for homeowners in low- and moderate-income brackets still in need of repair or rebuilding from 2020 fire.

Paul Boden, formerly homeless, and now the Executive Director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project

Oregon State Parks are updating camping rules.

American Association of University Women, Ashland on affordable housing.

California has hundreds of millions to spend. Developers say they need billions.

The following are headlines from a few local news sites on a recent Sunday. In Ashland: “City Council to vote on camping ordinance, consider funding to extend emergency shelter operation.” In Medford: “Medford council worries about draining last federal dollars to help homeless people.” In Grants Pass: “Parents, superintendent want fence between school and homeless campers.” Besides all being about homelessness, there’s another similarity in these stories. None talked about the lack of housing in the Rogue Valley.

The Homeless Memorial Service honors homeless people who died in Shasta County in the past year.

The homeless service nonprofit Rogue Retreat recently turned to Facebook Marketplace to sell some of its rigid tents.