Updated December 10, 2020 A shelter opens today in the former Greyhound bus station in Portland s Old Town that can fit up to 100 houseless Portlanders while maintaining 6 feet of distance between people. The Downtown Physical Distancing Winter Shelter, a 30,000-square-foot space at 550 NW 6th Ave., provides 24-hour access to laundry services, showers, three meals per day, and housing navigation services. The shelter prioritizes veterans, people 55 and older, and those with disabling conditions.
The shelter was announced a few months ago, after the owner of the space agreed to issue a temporary lease set to expire in March 2021. The housing services organization Transition Projects will manage the shelter and is partnering with Central City Concern to assist Portlanders.
December 11 2020
The motels operated by the City/County Joint Office of Homeless Services are intended to slow the spread of the virus.
As COVID-19 cases and deaths surge in Multnomah County, the City/County Joint Office of Homeless Services has completed moving around 300 vulnerable people from congregate shelters to motels where they can safely isolate.
During the first week of December, adults began moving into the Portland Value Inn-Barbur in Southwest Portland. It is the sixth 24-hour physical distancing motel shelter opened by the joint office since June. This pandemic has exposed how tenuous and dangerous life is for people without housing, especially for those whose health makes them even more vulnerable to the worst effects of this virus, said County Chair Deborah Kafoury, who led the push to use motels as high-risk shelters. The county is committed to doing all we can to protect shelter residents from COVID-19, and we ve had to take extraordinary measures to
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