New Homeless Shelter Location in Inner Southeast, Provided by Developer

The Shleifer Furniture building on Southeast Grand Street will open as a homeless shelter on Monday.

For a third time, a Portland developer is donating the space for a temporary homeless shelter, city and county officials announced Friday.

The old Shleifer Furniture building on Southeast Grand Street will open as a homeless shelter on Monday for up to a 100 people, including men, women and couples.

The shelter is expected to remain at that location until the fall as Beam Development and Urban Development + Partners prepare to turn the building into a hotel.

The Shleifer Furniture opens as the temporary shelter, located at the Washington Center Building at SW Fourth and Washington Street, closes next week.

The Menashe family first donated the Washington Center Building space last year and helped reopen it again in January.

Developer Tom Cody is still hosting a homeless shelter at the Bushong & Co. building near O'Bryant Square. It opened last fall.

Full press release from the county and city below:

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