Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced she will step down from the LAHSA Commission effective September 9, after LAist reported in late August that she missed 13 of 21 commission meetings over a recent year period. St. Paul City Council President Rebecca Noecker said there are no scheduled dates to clear the city's remaining encampments after the Pig's Eye Park closure, ahead of which the city spent more than $1 million on shelter beds that providers said only seven camp residents used. In Portland, the Street Services Coordination Center reported 1,758 new campsite reports and 146 removals for the week of August 31–September 6, and Evergreen Habitat for Humanity is expected to close this month on a $12 million purchase of two Hazel Dell manufactured home parks. HUD posted no news or Federal Register documents after September 4 and the First Circuit had not ruled on HUD's stay motion in the Continuum of Care NOFO case as of this morning; the national section runs one item.
Evergreen Habitat for Humanity is expected to close this month on the purchase of the Hidden Village 1 and 2 manufactured home parks in Hazel Dell, north of Vancouver, for $12 million total — $8 million from the Washington State Department of Commerce and $4 million from private donations. The nonprofit plans to renovate many of the roughly 60 mobile homes on the 19-acre site and potentially build additional affordable housing on the undeveloped land, with homeowners holding 99-year land leases. The organization said it is its largest project to date.
The Clark County Council holds a September 14 public meeting on strategies to preserve mobile home parks as part of the revision of the county's 20-year growth plan.
The Street Services Coordination Center reported 1,758 new campsite reports for August 31–September 6, including 429 reports of people living in vehicles, and removed 146 campsites it said posed health and safety risks. Teams assessed approximately 724 reported campsites and observed 375 active ones. Five people accepted shelter referrals and 2 used a shelter bed for at least one night.
The prior week's report (August 24–30) recorded 1,852 campsite reports and 132 campsites removed.
The Portland Housing Bureau put temporary administrative rules for the Affordable Housing SDC Exemption Program into effect September 8 and released draft permanent rules for public comment. The bureau said the updates implement City Council code changes adopted July 29, 2026 through Ordinance 192210, expanding the rules to include rental units and strengthening enforcement provisions. A hybrid public hearing is set for October 20 from 10–11 a.m., with written testimony due October 23.
The underlying code change was adopted by City Council on July 29, 2026 through Ordinance 192210.
Willamette Week · 2026-09-09 · on Portland City Council DSA incumbents' small-donor fundraising totals
Willamette Week reported that council incumbents Tiffany Koyama Lane, Angelita Morillo and Mitch Green — all Democratic Socialists of America members — have each logged more than 1,600 campaign contributions through Portland's Small Donor Elections program, which the paper said is nearly 750 more than their centrist colleagues seeking reelection. Per the program's website, Koyama Lane has received $200,000 in matching funds, Morillo $160,000 and Green $162,000.
Mayor Karen Bass announced she will step down from the LAHSA Commission effective Wednesday, September 9, after LAist reported in late August that she missed 13 of 21 commission meetings over a recent year period. Her office did not say whom she plans to appoint to the seat. The announcement came as the city works toward a homelessness system independent of LAHSA.
Bass's three-year term on the LAHSA Commission expired June 30, 2026, and she had remained on the commission past that date.
The Pasadena Human Services Commission was scheduled to hear a pitch Wednesday, September 9, from Azure Printed Homes co-founder Gene Eidelman for transitional housing units printed from recycled polymer at a Gardena factory. Eidelman cited a San Luis Obispo project where 62 units were manufactured in 10 weeks for a site serving 54 unhoused people, and a Camarillo project of six tiny homes manufactured in six weeks. A staff report to the commission put a 50-bed site's annual operating costs at $3.5 million to $4 million under master leasing.
The city report puts Pasadena's homelessness rate at 423 per 100,000 residents on the 2025 point-in-time count.
The Standard reported that at least 28 housed owners of large vehicles have told the city they were ticketed, towed, or feared enforcement under San Francisco's two-hour parking limit for vehicles over 7 feet tall or 22 feet long, in effect since November 2025. As of early September the city had towed more than 360 vehicles, issued nearly 1,100 citations, bought back 154 large vehicles, and transitioned 221 vehicle-dwelling households into housing or shelter. A Lurie spokesperson called the policy "incredibly successful in reducing the number of people living in large vehicles on our streets."
Violations carry a $108 fine; the ordinance exempts holders of "refuge permits" issued to people living in vehicles before June 2025 but draws no distinction between personal-use and housing vehicles.
City Council President Rebecca Noecker said there are no scheduled dates to clear St. Paul's remaining encampments after city leaders called the August closure of the Pig's Eye Park camp unsuccessful. The city spent more than $1 million on new shelter beds before that closure, but providers said only seven were used by people from the camp; about 100 residents moved instead to the Randolph Avenue camp, where police calls have risen more than 1,200%. The mayor's office said closure plans are ongoing but gave no date for Randolph Avenue.
Mayor Kaohly Her announced plans in July to close the city's three biggest encampments, and workers moved more than 200 people out of Pig's Eye Park by August 5; the city faces a $26 million budget deficit.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections reported that 57% fewer people are leaving prison into homelessness since 2021, when the state began sending $500,000 per year to the DOC for homelessness prevention. The program pays initial rental costs at halfway houses, sober homes, and apartments; program lead Jennifer Abbas said the DOC housed around 800 formerly incarcerated people last year.
The figure comes from the DOC's annual report on the program, funded at $500,000 annually since 2021.
The Jackson, Michigan City Council voted 4-3 on September 8 to approve an ordinance prohibiting tents on public property and allowing seizure of unattended property, and of attended property exceeding a 32-gallon container, following posted notice. The ordinance takes effect in 30 days. It was drafted in July after a since-removed homeless encampment developed downtown; opponents at public comment said it would make life harder for the city's homeless population.
An August second-reading vote was postponed because Vice Mayor Freddie Dancy was absent and three councilmembers said they would vote no, which would have defeated the measure.
Rochester Mayor Malik Evans and Council President Miguel Meléndez submitted legislation September 1 seeking up to $1.15 million from the city's Opioid Compensation Fund for City Roots Community Land Trust to operate Peace Village, the city's sanctioned encampment, through June 2027. The site is expected to include 15 Pallet shelters with showers, electricity, and heat, accommodating roughly 15 to 30 people at a time. City Council is scheduled to vote September 22.
Peace Village opened at 97 Industrial Street in 2018 and operated for about five years before the site was cleared for construction; Pallet, the shelter manufacturer, announced its closure September 4.
HUD posted no news releases or Federal Register documents September 5–9, the First Circuit had not ruled on HUD's stay motion in NAEH v. HUD as of this morning, and no federal data releases fell in the window; the section runs one item.
CNBC · 2026-09-08 · on Zillow renter out-of-town search data
Zillow reported that Buffalo, Chicago, and Houston posted the largest year-over-year growth in rental searches originating outside their metros, followed by New Orleans and Dallas, and that out-of-town searches now outnumber local ones in Salt Lake City, Raleigh, Hartford, and Nashville. Zillow chief economist Mischa Fisher said growing out-of-town rental search share indicates "a developing pipeline" of future in-migration, and CNBC noted rental demand is typically a leading indicator of home sales. The markets drawing the most renter interest have median home prices below the July national median of $434,100 reported by the National Association of Realtors.
Apartment List reported August rents rose month over month for the first time in four years while remaining slightly below August 2025 levels.
2026-09-10 — Legin Commons grand opening, 7705 SE Division St — 124 affordable homes on the PCC Southeast Campus (source)
2026-09-14 — Clark County Council public hearing on manufactured home park protections (source)
2026-09-15 — House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency hearing on LAHSA's use of federal funds; Bass's testimony requested (source)
2026-09-18 — Responses due on plaintiffs' unopposed motion to amend judgment in NAEH v. HUD (D.R.I. 1:26-cv-00436) (source)
2026-09-18 — NW Northrup Shelter in Portland closes permanently, one year after opening (source)
2026-09-22 — Rochester City Council vote on $1.15 million in Opioid Compensation Fund money to reopen Peace Village (source)
2026-09-28 — Comments due on HUD 30-day information collection notice, "Public Housing Reform; Change in Admission and Occupancy Requirements" (source)
2026-09-30 — Deadline for Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign or veto the California bill barring housing-authority work requirements and time limits on federal rental assistance (source)
2026-10-01 — FY 2027 Fair Market Rents take effect; comments on the FMR notice also due this date (source)
2026-10-20 — Portland Housing Bureau hybrid public hearing on permanent Affordable Housing SDC Exemption Program rules; written testimony due October 23 (source)
2026-11-02 — Comments due on the revised Operations Notice for the Moving to Work demonstration expansion (source)
2026-12-11 — Continuing resolution signed September 2 (H.R. 6500) funds the government through this date (source)