Surrounding Vancouver’s largest homeless camp sit seven shabby houses built about a century ago. The paint is peeling. The lawn is dead. Windows are damaged.…
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NW Furniture Bank breaks ground on new building in southeast Vancouver
By The Citizen on July 30, 2025
A nonprofit that provides low-income families with donated furniture and housewares broke ground Tuesday on a new building that will triple the capacity of its…
Clark County Council looking for ways to fund affordable housing project in Battle Ground before deadlines hit
By The Citizen on July 26, 2025
A long-awaited 100-unit affordable housing complex in Battle Ground — including units for students and residents with intellectual disabilities — may finally move forward after…
Federal money that helps homeless students in Vancouver, Evergreen school districts is at risk
By The Citizen on July 22, 2025
Federal funding to help homeless students in Clark County is at risk. Read more… Source: The Columbian
‘It’ll probably kill a lot of us’: Medicaid changes bode ill for Clark County’s homeless
By The Citizen on July 19, 2025
Thousands of low-income Clark County residents, especially homeless people, could lose health care coverage in 2027 due to Medicaid eligibility changes. Read more… Source: The…
Vancouver plans to buy $1.3M metal building for what will be the largest homeless shelter in Clark County
By The Citizen on July 8, 2025
The Vancouver City Council on Monday agreed to buy a $1.3 million metal building for a planned homeless shelter. Read more… Source: The Columbian
Shelters receive less money than requested from city of Vancouver
By The Citizen on June 20, 2025
Vancouver nonprofits Share and YWCA Clark County each have received less money to run their shelters than they requested from the city of Vancouver. Read…
Vancouver’s Safe Park contract with nonprofit designed to avoid issues
By The Citizen on June 12, 2025
Live Love Outreach will manage the city of Vancouver’s Safe Park for people living in vehicles and RVs. Read more… Source: The Columbian
Those living in west Vancouver’s decade-old ‘Share camp’ say they have nowhere else to go
By The Citizen on May 20, 2025
Eleven-year-old Raina Troupe is used to winding through tents to get to her school bus stop along Jefferson Street in downtown Vancouver. Her family’s little…
With state funding cuts, dangerous homeless camps along Clark County highways could remain in place longer
By The Citizen on May 14, 2025
The Washington State Department of Transportation may have less funding for clearing homeless camps along state highways in Clark County starting in July. Read more… …