Participants can lower housing costs through shared living arrangements, with background checks, financial coaching and optional task exchanges built into the program.

The Springfield Eugene Tenant Association wants to remind renters of their rights during the heat.

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.