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Developer Homer Williams Releases Tentative Plan for Homeless Pod Village The pods can be built in 15 minutes. Williams aims to put 50 of them on a site he says will be announced soon. Updated 7:19 PM Real-estate developer Homer Williams wants to build a housing community, at an undisclosed Portland location, consisting of 50 fully insulated 64-square-foot pods. Williams released a video this evening about his planned project something his nonprofit has been working on for seven months now, he tells
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Developer s ambition plans to solve Portland s homeless crisis April 23 2021
Homer Williams, a major player in the creation of the Pearl District, thinks big with tiny homes, public property
One of the leading developers of Portland s Pearl District says the city s homeless situation is about to worsen if local leaders don t jump on board with his vision.
Developer Homer Williams has spent the last several years of his retirement dedicating his mind and money to solving the homeless crisis in the Portland metro area.
Williams first launched the Oregon Harbor of Hope shelter to provide people essential services to stabilize their lives. He said nearly half of the people who use the shelter also go to work every day.
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Fraught scene over discarded food at Portland Fred Meyer highlights hunger, challenges of distribution in storm
Safeway, Albertsons and Whole Foods didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Oregonian/OregonLive.
The fraught situation at the Hollywood Fred Meyer brought home that people are going hungry in Oregon.
At Portland Public Schools, nutrition services staffers normally provide grab-and-go meals for neighborhood children on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. But those distributions were canceled Friday due to snow and Monday for President’s Day, leaving families that count on those meals short. Beaumont Middle School, one of the district’s meal sites, is about two miles northeast of the Hollywood Fred Meyer.