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Can Tiny Houses In People’s Backyards Help Alleviate The Homelessness Crisis?

Posted by haley.hughes | April 11, 2017

“WE DON’T WANT PEOPLE STAYING IN SHELTERS FOR TWO YEARS”

Portland and the county it sits in, Multnomah, have been working on the issue of homelessness for years. In 2016, the city committed to adding 650 new shelter beds to make a total of 1,240. A recently approved $258 million bond measure will fund 1,300 new units of affordable housing, but those units won’t be ready for at least two years. In the meantime, the county thinks that new backyard houses could be one way to help small families–such as a single mother and a child or two–get off the street.

 

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Originally written by Adele Peters

 

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