City crews and contracted workers with ServiceMaster of Salem pick up items left on the ground at Wallace Marine Park as the city clears a homeless encampment on Thursday March 31, 2022. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) Workers from the city of Salem on Thursday cleared a homeless camp at Wallace Marine[Read More…]

Jorge Jiminez, 40, who formerly lived in the Market Street camp, returned on Monday, July 19, 2021 to help clean as the Oregon Department of Transportation began a sweep. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) John Puckett and Adam Alderson wheeled a grocery cart piled high with tarps west on Market Street Monday[Read More…]

Notice of an upcoming ODOT camp sweep is posted under the Market Street overpass in Salem on July 12, 2021. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Dozens of people living under Salem’s Interstate 5 overpass on Market Street will have to find another place to stay starting July 19. The Oregon Department of[Read More…]

Beds at Union Gospel Mission’s current facility on Commercial Street, pictured in March 2019. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) Salem’s largest homeless shelter has stopped taking in new men temporarily after six shelter guests and three employees tested positive for Covid. The Union Gospel Mission in downtown Salem learned several residents had[Read More…]