Matt Herbert, navigation services manager for Church at the Park, at the door of a micro shelter at Village of Hope on May 11, 2022 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem will move its oldest micro shelter village to a new location on Northeast Center Street in August after a Marion County[Read More…]

Lindsay Dent, program manager at The ARCHES Project, speaks with Angel Rodriguez during the annual point-in-time count to assess homelessness, in Salem on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem outreach workers had a tougher time finding homeless camps during the city’s annual count of its homeless residents in[Read More…]

A memorial for homeless people who died in the Salem area in the past two years, held by the ARCHES Project at Marion Square Park on Thursday, May 26. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) Homeless service providers with the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency saw Kevin Graham for the last time at[Read More…]

The proposed site of Sequoia Crossings, a 60-unit apartment for chronically homeless people, at 3120 Broadway St. N.E. (Troy Brynelson/Salem Reporter) City officials say a boost of federal dollars will fast-track a housing project for chronically homeless residents in Salem which previously stalled due to a lack of funding. The[Read More…]

A partially-completed pallet shelter on April 13, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) A managed micro shelter village on Northeast Portland Road will double its capacity in the next two weeks as staff from the city of Salem and homeless provider Church at the Park build 20 new shelters. The new shelters[Read More…]

Sen. Jeff Merkley on a tour of Tanner Project, a transitional shelter for unhoused veterans on Thursday. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) In 10 years, Sen. Jeff Merkley hopes to drive into Salem, Eugene, Portland or any other city in Oregon and not see anybody living in tents. That will require investing[Read More…]

Sara Webb, program manager at the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency, poses in front of a poster at Tanner Project, a veteran housing project. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Three dozen unhoused veterans in Marion County will move into a space of their own thanks to a federal grant recently awarded to[Read More…]

Volunteers walk along a row of pallet shelters under construction on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) City officials say they are not pursuing any new sites for a planned micro shelter village after a judge’s order blocked work on a Center Street property approved by the Salem City[Read More…]

People walk through Wallace Marine Park with their belongings as city crews city sweep a homeless encampment on Thursday March 31, 2022. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) After camping for five months at Wallace Marine Park, Kyler Walls had no choice but to pack up and leave. Walls, her fiancé and her[Read More…]

Around noon Monday, flowers, a cross and a tray of candles sat beside a tree on the landscaped strip where a car crashed through a homeless camp early Sunday. Police say four people died. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) Nathan Rose heard two loud thuds early Sunday morning just before a sports[Read More…]