Published 9:30 am Friday, May 1, 2026

Deschutes County and the city of Redmond are working together to open a 36-site managed camp in east Redmond in an effort to accommodate homeless people who are living on a property they need to be off of by June.

The county has struggled to find a qualified and willing organization to manage the camp but efforts have accelerated due the city’s intention to move a current estimate of 15 encampments off of a 46-acre property in the city’s Desert Rise industrial park, off Antler Avenue, by the end of May.

Most parties believe if a camp is not opened by the end of the month the people currently living on the property will move east into county land that already has 160 people living on it. Which the county wishes to avoid.…