A Marathon and a Sprint
Homelessness nonprofits prepare for COVID-19
We’ve heard the recommendations dozens of times: Wash your hands with soap and water, for at least 20 seconds; social distance at least six feet … Continue reading
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Little Free Pantries
Burrito Brigade’s pantries bring ready-to-eat food to neighborhoods
Amy Hand puts hard boiled eggs, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, mandarins, canned beans and tuna, tampons and toothbrushes into a baby blue wooden pantry … Continue reading
Virus Cancellation Opens Space at Fairgrounds for Egan Warming Center
The shelter finds a new home for the rest of its season
Eugene is a ghost town these days. People are too scared to move beyond their sealed homes. Events everywhere have been postponed or flat-out canceled. … Continue reading
The Poor Among Us
How Lane County citizens once banded together to help the poor
In 1886, 27 years after Oregon became a state, the citizens of Lane County decided to help the poor. They gathered together and wrote a letter … Continue reading
Mourn the Dead
Remembering those who have died unhoused in Eugene this year
Stripped to their core, all the homeless own is the concrete, dirt and their wits. The concrete is unforgiving, the dirt turns to mud this … Continue reading
Douglas County Homeless Shelter Rejected … by the City of Roseburg
The city forces Douglas County to take down temporary homeless shelter
Douglas County, Lane County’s politically conservative neighbor to the south, is one of the few in the state that has tried to address homelessness by … Continue reading
Police Set Up Surveillance Trailer at Homeless Protest Camp Across from Newspaper Office
The Eugene Police Department surveillance trailer sits amidst a longstanding protest camp and across from the alt weekly newspaper
The Eugene Police Department has set up a surveillance trailer to monitor a homeless protest camp across from Eugene Weekly. EW has reached out to … Continue reading
Egan Warming Center Will Be Open Oct. 29 and 30
Egan normally does not open until later in November but is responding to the early cold temperatures
Egan Warming Center will activate at 8 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 29, and Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Lane Events Center in the Wheeler Pavilion. St. … Continue reading
Health Care Organizations to Help the Homeless
Local hospitals fund Housing First development
Housing First is seen by many advocates for the unhoused as a big step in getting the chronically homeless into long-term housing rather than emergency … Continue reading
The Broken System
Lane County ships the homeless and mentally ill to the state hospital without a trial
On a chilly October night last year, 59-year-old Douglas Saxe rampaged through his supported living apartment complex. He flooded floors, broke power meters and stole … Continue reading