$4.2 million grant to convert Ashland hotel into shelter for those hit by COVID, fires
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ASHLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) The Oregon Community Foundation announced Thursday that Options for Helping Residents of Ashland has been selected to receive the first Project Turnkey grant of $4.2 million in state funds to purchase and transform an Ashland motel into the new OHRA Center – a resource center and facility to safely shelter community members negatively impacted by wildfires and COVID-19 pandemic.
In November, the Oregon Legislature’s Emergency Board allocated $65 million in state funding to purchase financially distressed motels across the state to deliver safe shelter in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires. These properties may ultimately be converted into long-term housing. OCF is administering the funds and convening a statewide community advisory committee to select qualified applicants to ‘Project Turnkey.’
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Ashland group receives $4.2 million grant to convert motel into shelter facility
Options for Helping Residents of Ashland is the first Oregon group to receive a Project Turnkey grant from the state in order to found a new shelter.
Posted: Feb 4, 2021 11:25 AM
Updated: Feb 4, 2021 7:23 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
ASHLAND, Ore. An Ashland-based organization will receive a $4.2 million grant from the state in order to buy and convert a local motel into a shelter facility, part of Oregon s newly-funded Project Turnkey.
The Oregon Community Foundation announced on Thursday that Options for Helping Residents of Ashland (OHRA) had been selected to be the first recipient of a Project Turnkey grant. The funds are meant to be used to create a resource center and shelter facility for people in the community negatively impacted by wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prompted by pandemic, some states buy hotels for the homeless By Erika Bolstad, Stateline.org
Share: Genia Hope, 52, moves into her new room at a hotel that is being used for Project Roomkey in Whittier, Calif., on July 7. Oregon s Project Turnkey, modeled after a similar program in California, was born out of the need to provide shelter and practice social distancing during the pandemic. The economic effects of the pandemic and wildfires have compounded a preexisting homelessness and affordable housing crisis on the West Coast. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
PORTLAND It’s a bold goal in a place with a major housing crisis: Get as many as 2,000 unsheltered Oregonians into homes this winter by spending $65 million in state money to buy up to 20 underused hotels.