COLVILLE – With the city’s former homeless camp now officially empty as an ongoing housing shortage persists, the Stevens County Homeless Housing Taskforce is working on an updated plan aimed at addressing homelessness across the county’s rural communities.

During a meeting on Thursday, Cruze Thompson, housing director for the nonprofit Rural Resources and leader of the task force, said the goal is to complete the plan for 2025 to 2030 by the end of August.

“We plan to create more opportunities to serve the homeless in Stevens County,” Thompson said.

Before the meeting, Shiloh Reynolds, director at Bridges of Hope Men’s Recovery Center – a program run by the Hope Street Project, a nonprofit that provides services to homeless individuals in Colville –said one of the key gaps he sees is h

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