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Bethlehem Inn asks Redmond City Council to help fund new shelter REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- At Tuesday evening's Redmond City Council meeting, Bethlehem Inn Executive Director Gwenn Wysling asked councilors to contribute $450,000 to their Redmond shelter project, to help with the growing homelessness problem across Central Oregon. Wysling says they've operated a shelter in Bend for years, and have now acquired the Greenway Motel in Redmond for a new high-barrier homeless shelter through the state-funded Project Turnkey program. High-barrier means they have to pass a drug and alcohol test and no...

Lawmakers OK more than $700 million for housing needs They go beyond immediate crises of evictions and foreclosures to boost housing supply and homeownership. Oregon lawmakers approved more than $700 million for housing needs that go beyond the emergency prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to avoiding evictions and foreclosures, the 2021 Legislature aimed at increasing the supply of lower-cost housing, helping people without permanent shelter, and reducing housing disparities faced by racial and ethnic minorities. Lawmakers went well beyond what they did in 2019, when ...

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The Oregon House approved HB 2004 Thursday, allocating $9.7 million to provide an additional 132 units for unhoused people and wildfire survivors through Project Turnkey.

Oregon is converting motels into homes for wildfire survivors with nowhere else to go.