Coordinator of Salem-area homeless services resigns

The first executive director tasked with coordinating the Salem area’s homeless services has resigned after a year and a half on the job, citing personal reasons.

Elaine Lozier leads the Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance, a government agency which receives state and federal money to distribute to local housing and homeless services, and is tasked with improving coordination among them. Its budget this year was $25.6 million.

Lozier grew up in Dallas and worked in the…