A proposal now in front of Portland’s City Council will have a dramatic impact on the nature of the community being created in the North Macadam district through the use of public funds. At issue is whether current city elected officials will fulfill com ...
6 Mar 2015 - Will White
The recent announcement by the Portland Development Commission that Natural Grocers will be the new anchor tenant of the much-maligned and long vacant city-owned lot in Northeast Portland at the corner of Alberta Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevar ...
6 Oct 2014 - M. Nels Johnson
Commissioner Dan Saltzman and his challenger Nicholas Caleb are running Portland Commissioner No. 3. Street Roots posed three questions to the candidates on housing and homelessness. Street Roots: Portland is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. The ...
1 May 2014 - Street Roots Staff
In 1999, North and Northeast Portland was a low-income neighborhood surrounded by a food desert, and The Portland Development Commission (PDC) promised to do something about it. Fourteen years later, the PDC did-- but many of the people who needed the sup ...
16 Dec 2013 - Cameron Whitten
Review of housing set aside reveals positive results By John Miller, Contributing Writer As a long time advocate for affordable homes here in Portland I was very happy to discover that the city has exceeded its ‘TIF Set Aside” spending on affordable housi ...
27 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
Interstate and beyond: Lessons of history resonate as the city prepares to expand Urban Renewal Area by Jake Thomas Roslyn Hill can no longer quite visualize the neighborhood she grew up in. Probably because it doesn’t exist anymore. While in the third gr ...
5 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
Housing Bureau is moving The offices are moving, in part, due to the merger of the Bureau of Housing and Community Development and aspects of the Portland Development Commission; the combined agency will now be known as the Portland Housing Bureau. The st ...
6 Nov 2009 - Street Roots
Central city's housing for the poor declines The Oregon Opportunity Network, or Oregon ON, says a new report by the Portland Development Commission illustrates how affordable housing units for the poorest are slipping out of grasp for many residents. ...
4 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Portland’s 30 percent set aside of funds for housing boasts some success, some problems and some trouble ahead "Homeless Giant" by Eric Drooker. His graphics have appeared on countless posters, books and CD covers and his paintings are often see ...
24 Dec 2008 - Street Roots