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Housing and Homelessness

Information regarding my stance on Housing issues.

July 26, 2019

A celebration to recognize those involved with helping establish a 16-unit affordable housing apartment complex in St. Helens was hosted last week.

On Friday, July 19, a grand opening ceremony was held at the 18th Street Development, a recently completed affordable housing apartment complex — already fully occupied — as a way to honor those involved that made the project possible.


July 19, 2019

A grand opening event to celebrate the completion of a 16-unit affordable housing project in St. Helens will take place at the complex this Friday.


July 16, 2019

House lawmakers weighed efforts to combat youth homelessness and pushed for more federal funding to address the issue at a hearing on Tuesday before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services.


June 28, 2019

Clatsop County's housing crisis reverberates all the way to the halls of Congress.


May 10, 2019

Finding solutions to address affordable housing — not only in Columbia County but across the state and country — is complex and multifaceted.


May 7, 2019

St. Helens city leaders are reviewing a series of steps toward solutions to the city's housing needs.


April 17, 2019

How can the federal government help ease the North Coast's housing crunch?


November 12, 2018

As winter winds bear down on Portland's homeless, hi-tech workers are handing out an old-school solution: kits packed with emergency supplies.


August 24, 2018

Verda Heilman realized she was kicking herself out of her own home when she voted with other members of the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority Board this year to sell a former boarding house in Uniontown to a nonprofit that plans homeless outreach.