Coos County gets state funding to house some homeless
Coos County will be receiving just short of $2 million to continue to work to find homes for the homeless, but the funding is short of what is needed to
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Coos County will be receiving just short of $2 million to continue to work to find homes for the homeless, but the funding is short of what is needed to
We are now seeing what happens when the City and the County “go their own way” without the coordination of the other.
The pilot program's executive director is leaving amid systemic challenges
Following a highly competitive national recruitment, Deschutes County and partnering cities Bend, La Pine, Redmond and Sisters have hired Cheyenne Purrington as Central Oregon's first Houseless Strategies and Solutions Director. Cheyenne Purrington, who will start on Sept. 19, will lead the newly created Coordinated Houseless Response Office. The Office will streamline the work of dozens of local organizations serving our regional houseless population as well as enable a community-wide approach to addressing houselessness under a shared set of principles, priorities, and strategies. The C...