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GRANTS PASS, Ore. —The city of Grants Pass is hoping to help locals in need with additional housing, by applying for an Oregon Community Foundation grant. It hopes to open a Project Turnkey facility after other ones are in the works in Ashland and Medford. The Grants Pass City Council sent a letter to the Oregon Community Foundation asking for its support for the new development. This comes after the Oregon Legislature set aside $65 million for the purpose of acquiring hotels and operating them as congregate housing facilities. In Medford, the Redwood Inn, a 47-room motel on Riverside Avenu...

Split Bend council OKs $1 million for police body cams, calls off motel purchase Published (Update: Adding video, more on body cam discussion; hotel deal called off) Will seek new site for shelter; also gives nod to keeping downtown 'parklets' BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A slim majority of Bend city councilors voted Wednesday night to approve a five-year, more than $1 million contract to buy a body camera system from Axon Enterprise Inc. Police Chief Mike Krantz said while body-worn cameras cannot tell the whole story, they can provide vital information and evid...

Bend Seeks Transitional Housing Options The Bend City Council directed City staff to terminate a purchase and sale agreement with Old Mill Inn & Suites, located at 904 SE Third Street, and pursue alternative motel property options for providing temporary transitional housing for the community. The City was considering the purchase of the motel through Project Turnkey, a State-funded grant program. The direction from Council comes near the end of a feasibility period for the purchase and sale agreement, set to expire April 9. During this period, inspections by City staff and others determined ...

Originally published on March 31, 2021 4:01 pm Oregon state lawmakers approved a measure on Wednesday that embodies the times we are living in: The bill would ease the ability to convert hotels and motels — pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic — into long-term affordable housing for people who lost their homes in the wildfires or who are otherwise unhoused. The measure now heads to the Senate. Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, who sponsored House Bill 3261, and represents a region where 2,500 homes were wiped out in Oregon’s 2020 wildfire season, said the ability to quickly turn some hotels...

House vote sends legislation to the Senate to ward off potential legal challenges The conversion of hotels and motels to emergency shelters and low-cost housing would be eased under a bill that is halfway through the Oregon Legislature. The House voted 41-12 on Wednesday, March 31, to send the bill to the Senate. House Bill 3261 would exclude the conversion of hotels and motels purchased for emergency shelters or low-cost housing from land use challenges in cities and counties. Lawmakers made federal money available for such purchases last year under Project Turnkey, which is overseen by t...