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homeless Archive

Mourn the Dead

Remembering those who have died unhoused in Eugene this year

BlogNews 3 years ago

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

BlogNews 3 years ago

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

BlogNews 3 years ago

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

BlogNews 3 years ago

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

News 3 years ago

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

News 4 years ago

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 →

Annette Montero 1962-2019

The family of a woman killed in downtown Eugene last month describes a life much bigger than the word ‘homeless’

News 4 years ago

In 1979 she graduated as a class leader in a large Bay Area high school. In 1982 she was a student at the University of … Continue reading →

Lane County Commissioners Declare Homelessness an Emergency

Commissioner Jay Bozievich refers to the declaration as ‘symbolic,’ costly on taxpayer money

BlogNews 4 years ago

Lane County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1, approving a resolution declaring homelessness an emergency during its Tuesday morning Sept. 10 meeting. The declaration was symbolic … Continue reading →

Forever Unseen

The tragic death of an unhoused woman in Eugene raises questions about how the deaths of those on the streets are tracked

News 4 years ago

A woman was killed while sleeping in a parking lot during the early hours of Monday, Aug. 26. According to a series of Eugene Police … Continue reading →

A City in Need of a Solution

News 4 years ago

On any given day, more than 1,600 people wander Eugene without a permanent place to live. The ongoing crisis of homelessness here has tested city … Continue reading →

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