Brigetta Olson News Today

The updated sleeping area guide include three pages detailing so-called "prescreened areas"— with maps showing the specific portions of those areas where unsheltered residents can lie, rest or sleep—and the dos and donts to guide their use.

The city partners with community organizations and uses the funding to develop new affordable housing units and maintain existing ones.

The City of Corvallis has recently marked historic success for Corvallis’s community development team and the city as a whole with the most affordable housing ever constructed. Over 400 rentable units of affordable housing are scheduled to be built or already under construction in the City of Corvallis, according to Corvallis Housing and Neighborhood Services...

Corvallis officials want to hear funding proposals to address homelessness in their city.

The Corvallis City Council has agreed to appropriate more than $360,000 in federal funds for services that will largely help the homeless. That’s the good news on the city’s fight against homelessness. The bad news is that Corvallis Mayor Biff Traber announced at Monday’s remote meeting that plans by the Unity Shelter group to put together a managed camping facility near the BMX park have collapsed. Unity Shelter, which manages the men’s shelter and hygiene center, the women...