One year in, about half of Village of Hope residents move on to somewhere better

Matt Herbert, navigation services manager for Church at the Park, at the door of a micro shelter at Village of Hope on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter)

About one out of four people leaving Salem’s first micro shelter village has gone on to permanent housing during its first year of operations, while a little over half have left for a “positive destination.”

Village of Hope, a micro shelter site in northeast Salem run…

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