vancouver
‘Get the Facts’ on poverty on Nov. 17
The fourth annual “Hungry & Homeless in Clark County: Get the Facts” brown-bag lunch forum is set for 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the Vancouver Community Library, 901 C Street. It’s part of National Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week, Nov. 15-21.
The event is free and open to everyone. It will feature a panel of speakers on affordable housing issues, including: Dee Sanders and Ricki Anaya, who direct housing programs for Share Vancouver, a leading local agency that tends the hungry and homeless; Andy Silver, executive director of the Council for the Homeless; and Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt representing the City Council’s Affordable Housing Task Force. A question-and-answer session will follow the speakers.
“Since the recession in 2007, a crisis in local affordable housing has been slowly building, leading us to today, with the apartment vacancy rate in Vancouver at less than two percent,” said Diane McWithey, Share’s executive director. “We encourage community members to recognize that affordable housing impacts us all.”
Learn more about the event, and Share, at sharevancouver.org.
