We are fortunate as Santa Clara community members to have Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church in the community, because they are a lifeline to so many.
Speaker The KEPW program Legalize Survival recently featured a new transitional housing program in Santa Clara. Here is program host Jana Thrift:
Jana Thrift Today we are lucky to have three guests here from the Community Garden Cottage program right here in Santa Clara of Eugene, Oregon. I’m going to introduce Matt first. He’s the program supervisor and part of the program since its inception. Neal is their case manager, and T. (confirming spelling) is a friend and neighbor who volunteers with the Community Garden Cottages. So I’m going to invite Matt to just tell us a little bit about what inspired the Garden Cottages program.
Matt Imlach In 2022 at Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church, we got a new priest that came in, and she saw the lack of services in the North Eugene Santa Clara neighborhood for homeless persons or houseless persons. So we got together and started brainstorming what we could do to help people get into permanent housing…