The number of unauthorized, unmanaged campsites in Deschutes County is growing, as is the concern of neighboring residents. Deschutes County commissioner Phil Chang, tells KBND News - while there are those homeless campers who are not yet ready to get off the streets - the majority don’t want to live outside in unauthorized camps. "There are people who are not quite ready to come indoors yet but we've seen the City of Bend an effort to expand facitilites of all kinds for people so they have alternatives with support and resources.” A proposed day-time navigation center at Shepherd House that serves as a clearing house of services is expected to help. A separate coordinated county-wide office that brings local governments together to support homeless service providers is expected to fill critical gaps in the continuum of services in facilities which are currently available. Chang hopes the county will eventually be able to authorize tougher law enforcement to stop displaced homeless people from relocating to areas where they create a disturbance or threat to themselves or their neighbors. One of those areas is a less restricted forested area of China Hat where police have responded to multiple calls of fires and reports of crime.