Homelessness
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Emerson’s Cleared. Now What?

The City’s after-action report from the closing of a camp on Emerson Avenue could guide future closures on City-owned right of ways
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On June 23 the Bend Police Department, in coordination with social services agencies, closed and cleared Emerson Avenue, where 40 to 50 unhoused people were living on City right of ways, using a City policy uniquely tailored for Emerson that could guide how unhoused encampments are swept in the future. At the Bend City Council meeting approving the policy […]

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Turnkey Funding Awarded In Bend

After the purchase of the Old Mill & Suites was rescinded, Bend finds a new shelter for the unhoused
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Bend Value Inn will be converted into a transitional shelter for the homeless thanks to a $2.9 million grant through Project Turnkey, a state program that funds the purchase and renovation of motels into shelters for people who are experiencing houselessness or at risk of becoming unhoused. The City of Bend originally sought to acquire […]

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Two Dead at Hunnell Campsite

Two people died, presumably from the extreme heat, in the area popular for houseless campers Sunday
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Update, 7/2/21: The Oregon State Medical Examiner confirmed that two people died from the extreme heat wave. Both were male, one was 64 and the other was 60. Two men died on Sunday at the camp on Hunnell Road as Bend surpassed its highest June temperature in recorded history, and on Tuesday its highest temperature […]

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Can’t Camp Here

Bend City Council adopts a policy for the removal of houseless camps on public right of ways. With shelters at capacity, where will they go?
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The Bend City Council unanimously approved a new policy on campsite removals for camps in City right of ways at its meeting June 2. The Council tailored the conversation to one of the City’s most visible camps, on Emerson Avenue. On Monday social service providers received the notice to engage with camp residents to prepare […]

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Year-Round Shelter Opens

Seventy individuals can find shelter at a converted warming shelter with new City and non-profit funding
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Shepard’s House is receiving funding from NeighborImpact and the City of Bend to convert its warming center into a full year-round shelter. The location at 275 NE Second Street will open on June 1 and have the capacity to house 70 individuals. It will run seven days a week from 6 pm-7am and will be a […]

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Letters to the Editor

Guest Opinion: Restoring Salmon
The Source Staff

Guest Opinion: Restoring Salmon A recent guest opinion told Source readers we should consider “feasible alternatives” for salmon reintroduction above the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project—the facility Portland General Electric and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs co-own and operate near Madras. But the alternative suggested would not meet the goals of the reintroduction project: […]

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Transit Station Rankles Neighbors

Neighborhood group says they’ve seen little progress on crime, safety and traffic flow generated by the Hawthorne Avenue Station
Chris Miller

Members of the business community and people who live around Cascades East Transit’s Hawthorne Avenue Station voiced their displeasure to the Bend City Council on May 1 about problems they feel aren’t being addressed at Hawthorn Avenue bus station just east of Third Street in Bend. People spoke about crime, transients, buses blocking driveways and […]

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