Tag HOUSING
Former prison land sale offers 390 acres for potential Salem housing development
A 390.5-acre property that includes the now shuttered Mill Creek Correctional Facility is up for auction next month. (Higgenbotham Auctioneers) The nearly 400-acre property that housed a Salem prison until last year is up for auction next month, billed as a stretch of land suited…
Salem needs tax breaks to provide affordable housing, smoother approval process, developers say
Homes on Tierra Drives Northeast on Jan. 12. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem area leaders need to provide incentives for building and offering units below market rates and speed up the process for development to help fill the area’s housing gap, local developers told city and…
Salem area gets federal housing funds for homeless, domestic violence victims
Jayne Downing, executive director of the Center for Hope and Safety, stands in the building’s office in 2019. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Marion and Polk counties are getting around $1.3 million in federal money to help get people who are homeless or victims of domestic violence…
Oregon extends rental assistance deadline to March 21
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…