Ridgeland Apartments on Center Street Northeast on Jan. 12. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) State officials said Tuesday Oregon would keep its emergency rental assistance program open a week later than planned after the federal Department of Treasury committed late Monday to giving the state an additional $16 million. The program was[Read More…]
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County commissioners consider spending $3 million on navigation center
The future site of Salem’s navigation center, now a vacant building located at 1185 22nd St. S.E. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) The Marion County Board of Commissioners is considering dedicating up to $3 million in federal money to a navigation center that would help homeless people move into permanent housing. Commissioners[Read More…]
Foreclosure moratorium ends statewide as nearly 3,000 in Marion County are behind on mortgages
Hundreds of people waited in line to apply for a one-time economic relief payment at the OnPoint Community Credit Union in West Salem in August 2020. Oregonians spared mortgage payments due to pandemic impacts over the past two years may now face foreclosure as bills come due (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)[Read More…]
Former motel will soon provide over 70 rooms to wildfire survivors, others without housing
Ashley Hamilton, ARCHES program director, cuts the ribbon at the new ARCHES Inn. (Ardeshir Tabrizian/Salem Reporter) A Salem motel turned emergency shelter is days away from opening rooms to people displaced by the Santiam Canyon wildfires. The Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency acquired the former Super 8 building, and ARCHES[Read More…]
Marion County still taking rental aid applications as state program winds down
A Salem apartment with notice on the door about the end of the state’s eviction moratorium (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) A Wednesday deadline for Oregon renters to seek assistance through a state program means thousands of Marion County residents will instead have to apply through the county, which has been slow[Read More…]
Thousands face eviction as local share of state rental assistance runs out
Some Salem renters got a notice on their door starting early summer, advising them the eviction moratorium had come to an end on June 30, 2021. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Thousands of Marion County residents who applied unsuccessfully for rental assistance through a state program may face eviction before more money[Read More…]
Salem’s wait list for housing vouchers dwindles, but years-long pause on new applications still stands
More than three years after Salem stopped taking waiting list applications for public assistance to get into housing, residents will still have to wait up to four years for an affordable place to live. As of Oct. 28, 7,578 people from 3,207 households are on the Salem Housing Authority’s waiting[Read More…]
Eviction moratoriums and rent assistance kept Oregonians housed, but many face barriers to entry as funding runs out
Some Salem renters got a notice on their door starting early summer, advising them the eviction moratorium had come to an end on June 30, 2021. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Oregonians struggling to pay rent faced barriers to getting assistance and slow payments through a $15 million rental assistance program in[Read More…]
Marion County plans to build housing in Santiam Canyon for wildfire survivors
The Oak Park Motel property in Gates, Ore. on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Marion County officials are planning to build 32 houses in the Santiam Canyon to provide short-term shelter for people displaced by the Beachie Creek Fire last summer. The county will use wildfire recovery funds[Read More…]
City, Church at the Park seek sponsors for temporary shelter housing
A partially-completed pallet shelter on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The city of Salem and Church at the Park want community members to help pay for so-called Pallet structures that are intended to help people transition out of homelessness. The 64-square-foot structures – fitting two single beds with[Read More…]
