Local agencies weigh budget options to alleviate the high-stress and low-wage conditions social-service workers face on the front lines of the homeless crisis Low wages, high staff turnover, stress and low morale are rife among the staff at homeless servi ...
21 Dec 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Advocates call for competitive bidding and cultural diversity in the selection of the specialist who evaluates police recruits Advocates for police accountability and for Portland’s African-American community are once again asking the city of Portland and ...
30 Nov 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Last summer, the Clackamas Service Center was nearly destroyed by fire. Today, it has reopened with a new vision and fresh approach to helping the neighborhood. Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes. For the Clackamas Service Center, wh ...
12 Oct 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
As Portland nears an agreement with Airbnb, cities worldwide struggle with regulating short-term-rental companies Portland is “on the cusp” of reaching an agreement with Airbnb to have the short-term rental company share its listing data with the city, a ...
14 Sep 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Cully residents are exploring land banking as a way to preserve their Northeast Portland neighborhood’s affordability Living Cully, the nonprofit coalition that works to prevent gentrification and displacement in Portland’s Cully neighborhood, is explorin ...
10 Aug 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
With the opening of Cully Park, Portland has its first Native Gathering Garden Along one edge of Northeast Portland’s Thomas Cully Park, prairie grasses sway and softly crackle in the breeze. Shaved tree trunks, tall and straight, border a graveled circul ...
6 Jul 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Officials struggle with whether or not to fund services for unsheltered residents, while finding ways to promote affordable housing construction At the southern edge of Bend’s downtown district, off of busy Northeast Division Street, lies Harmony House. A ...
18 May 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Stacey Witte dispenses knowledge, compassion and spare change at the Back Door Café, Central Oregon’s de facto homeless day center “You’re going to cry? Give me a hug instead of crying.” Stacey Witte embraced a homeless woman who came to the Back Door Ca ...
11 May 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Lisa Kuettle drives Mosaic Medical's medical van to various sites around Central Oregon: 'You go to where they are' Lisa Kuettle never gets what she calls “caregiver fatigue” – the feeling a doctor or nurse may get after a day of seeing pat ...
11 May 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Every Tuesday, volunteers of Central Oregon Veterans Outreach visit homeless camps outside Bend, bringing with them basic supplies and human connection BEND, Ore. – It is quiet and still in the juniper forests north of Bend as four volunteer outreach work ...
4 May 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe