Utah legislation would address the âconfusingâ system to help the homeless
The bill would create a new Office of Homeless Services and put a single person in charge of overseeing policy affecting the stateâs unsheltered populations.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) People experiencing homelessness seek shelter under the freeway on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. A Utah House committee voted 7-1 Thursday in support of a bill that seeks to address problems in the stateâs homeless services system. | Updated: 8:00 p.m.
The bill, HB347, would create a new Office of Homeless Services within the Department of Workforce Services and would put a single person in charge of overseeing policy affecting the stateâs unsheltered populations, in accordance with the recommendations of a report from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute last fall.
A major ice storm knocked out electricity for more than 730,000 homes in Oregon some for nearly a week.
A resident poses by a large ice-covered tree on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, in Portland, Ore., after a weekend winter storm toppled it. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) The frigid weather wreaking havoc in Texas also caused cold chaos in the Pacific Northwest, where a historic ice storm knocked out substations, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes unheated and with fridges of ruined food.
Frigid cold, pushed south from an unusual warming event over the arctic, arrived in Oregon last week, dumping snow and ice from Portland south through the normally temperate Willamette Valley to Salem and Eugene.
Wheeler, Ryan contradict each other on Hazelnut Grove s fate February 18 2021
Funding for the North Portland tiny home community may still be on the chopping block after all.
Confusion reigned at city hall late Thursday, Feb. 18, as Commissioner Dan Ryan and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler offered conflicting information on a long-running tiny home community s fate.
Ryan first announced an apparent about-face on Wheeler s behalf with the commissioner writing in a statement to the Tribune that Wheeler intends to provide services to Hazelnut Grove for another six months.
Almost as soon as that news broke, Wheeler s staff walked it back. I m told six months is not a firm timeline, mayoral spokesman Tim Becker said in a separate email to the Tribune as the after-office-hours uncertainty crested.
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