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Oregon s Affordable Housing Crisis Impacts College Students

Amethyst has been on her own since her mother kicked her out of her house at the age of 15. We’re not using her last name to protect her privacy. After graduating high school in 2019, she enrolled in Lane Community College in Eugene to study paramedicine.  Throughout high school and during part of her time in college she experienced housing and food insecurity.  “One, when you re having to pay for college by yourself, you re gonna lose a lot of money,” said Amethyst.  “And then you have to pay for your housing, and then you have to pay for your food and you re not able to make a livable wage, because you know, you re still trying to pursue your education. Like it seems impossible.”

Oregon experts anticipate flood of evictions when the pandemic rent moratorium ends

Oregonian renters unable to pay rent were granted a moratorium starting late March, about a month after the first COVID-19 case was found in the state and many lost their jobs. Each time the moratorium neared its end, it was extended with mere days to spare. However, the latest moratorium legislation set a due date. Renters have until July 1 to pay back what’s owed. Housing activists and landlords alike wonder how many renters will have the money by July, considering little has altered the conditions that called for a moratorium to begin with. Some experts and advocates are predicting a mass eviction event

PSU and FUMC partner to open student shelter

PSU and FUMC partner to open student shelter     Tara is a PSU graduate in mechanical engineering who was interviewed by the HRAC about her experience as a houseless student. “I would talk to you about interning at NASA and winning first place in the engineering research expo,” she said. “But I would never tell you that I owned a used Subaru and I lived in a tent.”    As a new response to this problem, PSU has partnered with First United Methodist Church (FUMC) to create the PSU Landing at FUMC, a shelter for PSU students facing houselessness or extreme housing insecurity. While PSU refers students to the FUMC shelter, the Landing itself is solely run and operated by FUMC. 

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