Sounding Board Meets to Help City Council with Strategy on Homelessness

As part of the City’s overall strategy to implement solutions for people experiencing homelessness, the City has formed a 10-person City Manager-appointed Sounding Board to House Our Neighbors.

The sounding board is made up of representatives of existing City committees (Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, Bend Economic Development Advisory Board, Neighborhood Leadership Alliance, Planning Commission) and local experts on homelessness, and supports City Council’s strategy to “invest in programs and partnerships that result in collaborative, concrete actions toward ending homelessness in Bend.”

The role of the Sounding Board is to develop and recommend strategies to City Council to assist in modifying City codes to allow for managed camps, shelters and other facilities to address homelessness, and to help meet Council’s goal of housing 500 homeless individuals on a temporary or permanent basis. 

The sounding board’s first meeting is at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, April 14. View the agenda and meeting materials on the Sounding Board to House Our Neighbors webpage.