Pamplin Media Group - Sixth 'physically distancing motel shelter' opens to fight COVID-19
December 11 2020 The motels operated by the City/County Joint Office of Homeless Services are intended to slow the spread of the virus. As COVID-19 cases and deaths surge in Multnomah County, the City/County Joint Office of Homeless Services has completed moving around 300 vulnerable people from congregate shelters to motels where they can safely isolate. During the first week of December, adults began moving into the Portland Value Inn-Barbur in Southwest Portland. It is the sixth 24-hour "physical distancing motel shelter" opened by the joint office since June. "This pandemic has expo...
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