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Roseburg’s City Council voted unanimously this week to approve changes to its Urban Growth Boundary, as part of an effort to develop more housing in the area.
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Environmental groups say riverside homeless encampments are polluting Oregon's waterways. People experiencing homelessness say urban camp removals are pushing them there.
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Several Eugene homeless advocates are facing criminal charges for trespassing.
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The ruling won’t immediately allow Oregon cities to begin penalizing unhoused people for resting on public property, due to a state law that puts limits on sweeping public camping bans.
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Many of the people most dependent on income from redeeming bottles and cans struggle to get those items to the places where they can turn them in for money.A new project in Eugene will bring a mobile bottle drop to the people and places it's needed most.
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The city awarded money to the projects from their Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
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When Oregon State University asked years ago to expand its Hatfield Marine Science Center it made a commitment to develop housing for some of the students, faculty and researchers drawn to the new facility. On Monday, it officially broke ground on a $16.5 million, 77-unit apartment project to do just that.
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The homeless population in Lane County has continued to grow, according to an official Point-In-Time Count released this month.
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Villard Street, with its tree-filled median, has been the University of Oregon’s eastern border for decades. It’s a “graceful edge” that neighbors don’t want to see changed.
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A Yachats developer has completed a $10.9 million affordable rental housing project in Florence and has plans on the drawing board for two more projects totaling $22 million.
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A mobile home park destroyed by the Holiday Farm Fire in 2020 is being rebuilt, with new units expected this summer.
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A rural area just west of Eugene will get infrastructure improvements thanks to state funds. The City of Eugene wants to encourage development on Crow Road to help fill the housing gap.