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Residents urge alternatives to fines for unsheltered people; teacher seeks homestay parking rule change

Astoria City Council · December 15, 2025
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Summary

At the Dec. 15 meeting, community members urged the council to avoid criminalizing survival when addressing homelessness and asked the city to reconsider parking rules that exclude some homeowners from the homestay-lodging program.

Public-comment speakers at the Astoria City Council meeting on Dec. 15 urged the council to pursue alternative approaches to homelessness and to revisit homestay-lodging parking rules.

Jason Murray, a local teacher, told the council he supports homestay lodging as a tool to help city civil servants afford housing but said a…

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