Tag HOMELESSNESS IN SALEM
PHOTOS: City clears homeless camp at Wallace Marine Park
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…
Campers who called Market Street home clear out as state sweep begins
John Puckett and Adam Alderson wheeled a grocery cart piled high with tarps west on Market Street Monday morning. The pair was moving Puckett’s belongings as Oregon Department of Transportation workers began clearing the camp that’s been a home for dozens of Salem’s unsheltered residents…
ODOT will sweep camps on Market Street, Salem Parkway starting July 19
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 Transportation plans to sweep the encampment with Oregon State Police on Monday, spokesman Lou Torres said. The department…
As temperatures drop, Salem’s largest homeless shelter sees Covid outbreak
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…