City weighs affordable housing funds in urban renewal areas By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer It’s been six years since Portland voted to dedicate 30 percent of the city’s urban renewal funds toward affordable housing. It was a controversial decision at a time ...
16 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
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
Breaking: Sam Chase named Nick Fish's Chief of Staff (July 10) Street Roots has just learned that Sam Chase, the Executive Director of the Oregon Opportunity Network (formerly the Community Development Network), will be the Chief of Staff for newly e ...
10 Jul 2008 - Street Roots