Street Roots' two-year project covering rural housing issues. Read the series: Street Roots received funding from Meyer Memorial Trust’s Affordable Housing Initiative to develop dedicated reporting on rural housing issues. The goal is to broaden our ...
1 Oct 2017 - Street Roots
Rural Oregon is experiencing one of the worst housing crises of our lifetime Elizabeth Reyes grew up in Lincoln City. The small tourist town on the Oregon Coast is her home, where she works full time and spends her money, where her children go to school. ...
1 Dec 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Accessing food, shelter and employment can be especially challenging in a rural community. Sara and her 10-year-old son know this firsthand. One woman, one 10-year-old boy, two cats, two dogs, all living in a van in a Walmart parking lot. This is what hom ...
29 Dec 2017 - Arkady Brown
Beaverton’s Nina Fekaris talks about the complicated overlap of housing, health care and education in Oregon’s rural communities According to Oregon Health & Science University’s Office of Rural Health, Oregon has 53 service areas in 24 counties where ...
19 Jan 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Legislation that aims to encourage construction in Oregon communities squeezed by a housing shortage is an important step forward Like Portland, rural communities across Oregon are experiencing a shortage of stable, affordable housing, most notably for lo ...
2 Mar 2018 - SR editorial board
In towns such as Junction City, rising housing costs push families to pantries to fill monthly budget gaps Walking through the immaculate, well-organized aisles of Junction City Local Aid’s food pantry, Jeanie Burr chatted happily with volunteer Peggy Sal ...
2 Mar 2018 - Thacher Schmid
The region is now beset with a housing shortage and an increase in homelessness. How will it respond as it continues to grow? BEND, Ore. – Sarah Kelley is exponentially busier than she was four years ago. Kelley is the executive director of Thrive Centra ...
13 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
A shortage of housing for middle-class workers leaves employers and professionals in a bind BEND, Ore. – Nearly seven years ago, Preston Callicott, the CEO of Bend-based software company Five Talent Software, offered a job to a software developer. The man ...
13 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Tom Kemper harnessed knowledge in law, finance and development to build hundreds of affordable-housing units If you ask anyone in Central Oregon who has been the most productive developer of affordable-housing units in the region, you will get the same na ...
20 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Hit hard during the recession, the small city is now in the midst of an economic boom. Home construction is soaring – but so are rents. And low-income housing remains elusive. PRINEVILLE, Ore. – On the eastern edge of Prineville is a 76-acre piece of land ...
27 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe