Eugene nonprofit Burrito Brigade has purchased a new building in the Whiteaker neighborhood to expand its low-barrier food hub and kitchen capacity.

The $400,000 grant will help NeighborWorks Umpqua provide needed repairs for low-income homeowners across Douglas County.

Residents of a retirement mobile home park in West Eugene are working to buy their own community after it was put up for sale by its out of state owners.

A new affordable housing development has opened in Eugene. Ollie Court not only provides living units, but also an onsite learning center.

Both of the county-run homeless shelters in Lincoln County will close for the season on April 30. That means a nonprofit drop-in center in Newport is bracing for a big increase in demand for service.

On this edition we talk with Jaime Gatewood of the Fair Housing Council of Oregon about their efforts to fight housing discrimination - especially for people with mental and developmental disabilities. We also talk with Alan Torres of the Register Guard about a key hurdle cleared by the developer for McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center to open up an emergency room in Eugene in the future.

Recent research by the University of Southern California shows that homeless people with pets get placed into permanent residences more than those without companion animals.

A year after CAHOOTS shut down its mobile crisis services in Eugene, the city has picked a partner to run a new peer navigation program.

A new workforce development program in Eugene is teaching people living in shelters how to become bicycle mechanics.

On this edition, we talk with OSU researcher Julia Marks-Peterson, about her study which reveals new information about climate change by evaluating carbon locked in Antarctic ice for more than three million years. We also talk with KLCC's Macy Moore about two stories they recently produced from Corvallis about a new low-barrier housing shelter and OSU mental health services using doctoral students.