REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Community Foundation announced Tuesday that the Bethlehem Inn will receive a Project Turnkey grant of nearly $2.7 million for the acquisition and conversion of a ...

Bethlehem Inn in downtown Redmond closed its doors in October, just months after it received more than $2.7 million in state funds to turn an old motel into a homeless shelter.

The Bethlehem Inn's new Redmond location is expected to open the second week of October. More than 32 businesses participated in the back-to-work event, something Hancock has hope in.

The organization has slowly grown since it opened Central Oregon’s first homeless shelter in 2004, including a $9 million expansion completed in 2019 and a new shelter in Redmond in 2022.

Headed into 2020, Oregon had a deficit of more than 5,800 emergency shelter beds. When COVID-19 struck, existing shelters were no longer safe, and people with housing who needed to isolate or ...