The Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency in Salem converted this ARCHES Lodge into a shelter and transitional housing. Projects like these could get a boost in funding and resources under a new statewide homeless shelter framework that was sent to the House on Tuesday. (Courtesy of Oregon Community Foundation)
Gov. Tina Kotek’s statewide homeless shelter support program advanced Tuesday out of a budgeting committee to the House floor, despite widespread dismay that Oregon’s latest attempt at combatting homelessness is falling short.
Kotek’s shelter program, and much of the rest of her more than $800 million recommended homelessness budget, took a haircut amid decreasing revenue from economic uncertainty due in large part to trade wars and President Donald Trump’s ongoing tariffs…