Portland area heat wave: nonprofits help homeless stay cool
The goal is to spread information about cooling centers and resources while also handing out water and other supplies to people living on the street.
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The goal is to spread information about cooling centers and resources while also handing out water and other supplies to people living on the street.
Advocates say affordable and low-income housing is one of the most urgent needs in the Santiam Canyon for people who lost their home in the Beachie Creek Fire.
View Comments With more than $4 million in funding from the Oregon Community Foundation's Project Turnkey, the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency is poised to purchase a Salem motel and reimagine it as transitional housing for people displaced by last year's wildfires and the chronically homeless. Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency Executive Director Jimmy Jones said the agency is looking to buy the 80-room Super 8 motel on 1288 Hawthorne Ave. NE and seeking a total of $5.95 million in funding. The site is set to open in late summer. “We are really excited about...