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1 month ago | centraloregondaily.com | David Dudley |FORJournalism Lab

(Editor's note: This article was first posted by "Real Stories, Real Solutions" on May 1, the day China Hat Road was closed for the Cabin Butte Vegetation Management Project.)A stroller stood abandoned among pine trees with scorched trunks. A pair of blue jeans with legs splayed lay atop a heap of pine needles and ash. An empty chrome dog bowl squatted before an abandoned RV.

1 month ago | centraloregondaily.com | David Dudley |FORJournalism Lab

Visitors to the woods surrounding China Hat Road may recognize Zachary "Zack" Polton's yellow school bus through the trees that line the road to the east. Polton has had the bus, which runs on propane, for more than three years. He bought it before he entered into a deal to buy a house from a friend in La Pine. That deal turned out to be an illusion, he said. "I thought the owners were paying the mortgage on the house with the payments I was making to them," Polton, 36, told FORJournalism.

2 months ago | bendsource.com | David Dudley |FORJournalism Lab

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2 months ago | centraloregondaily.com | David Dudley |FORJournalism Lab

Up until a few months ago, Mark Jenkins didn't consider himself lucky. The seventh child born to Floyd and Willie Lee Jenkins, he was born on the seventh day of the seventh month. "And I was all of seven pounds when I was born," Jenkins told FORJournalism on a rainy afternoon in early March.

2 months ago | centraloregondaily.com | David Dudley |FORJournalism Lab

Comments and questions about this article can be directed to ForJournalismLab at this link. Editor's note:Patricia Griffith was introduced to the Homelessness: Real Stories, Real Solutions team by Redmond houseless advocate Bob Bohac. He works with people living in The Junipers southeast of Redmond. He says they have the decks stacked against them when it comes to finding permanent housing. Griffith lived in The Junipers for 20 years and recently moved into a tiny home at Oasis Village.