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The rise and fall of Vancouver’s Navigation Center

Philosophical differences, staffing woes, COVID-19 among issues that derailed Vancouver’s day facility for homeless

By Calley Hair, Columbian staff writer
Published: July 11, 2021, 6:05am
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Rachel Korf, left, behavioral health receptionist for SeaMar Community Health Centers, takes the temperature of Prisli Maldonado, maternity support and community health worker, as she checks in for work at the former location of the Vancouver Navigation Center on Thursday morning, July 8, 2021.
Rachel Korf, left, behavioral health receptionist for SeaMar Community Health Centers, takes the temperature of Prisli Maldonado, maternity support and community health worker, as she checks in for work at the former location of the Vancouver Navigation Center on Thursday morning, July 8, 2021. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) (Photos by amanda cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

When Vancouver leaders officially announced that the city would permanently close its Navigation Center — a long-planned, briefly operated, well-used and hotly contested day shelter for people experiencing homelessness — the news barely made a ripple.

It makes sense. The center had already been closed for a year, shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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