Oregon rental aid program flounders while clock on eviction protections for renters runs down, putting thousands at risk of eviction When Rae Bloodgood applied for the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program (OERAP) in June, she knew she wasn’t going t ...
11 Aug 2021 - Aurora Biggers
Despite the often life-altering consequences of eviction proceedings, tenants secured legal representation in just 3% of the nearly 6000 eviction cases filed in Multnomah County in 2019. Attorneys say the COVID-19 pandemic has only made the issue more sev ...
28 Jul 2021 - Chris May
And the government must help, writes the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless Donald Whitehead is executive director of National Coalition for the Homeless. “This is no time … to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” — Dr. M ...
21 Jul 2021 - Donald Whitehead
Affordable housing and support services fall far short of demand. And, as a surge of evictions looms, the worst is yet to come. There are fewer than a dozen postal addresses along the short stretch of 97th Avenue, between Burnside and Glisan streets, but ...
28 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The White House’s attitudes toward homelessness could grow the population it wishes to sweep away As of this writing, the future of the Trump administration is unknown. What comes next may be the end of a contentious legacy of a single-term president or a ...
21 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The rates of basic-needs insecurity at Portland State are higher than the average across four-year institutions Housing and food insecurity among students and staff at Portland State University are widespread, and they’re hitting vulnerable groups on camp ...
24 Sep 2020 - Jessica Pollard
A developer plans to demolish the Flanders House and replace it with market rate apartments A newly formed tenants’ collective is speaking out against the possible demolition of an 1890s Alphabet District house that some of the neighborhood’s lower income ...
21 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
‘Our housing policy needs a major remodel,’ the senator says During a stop this month in southwest Portland, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) touted his plan to increase the stock of affordable housing and expand the affordable-housing tax credit. Wyden introdu ...
15 Nov 2019 - Christen McCurdy
DIRECTOR’S DESK | The Council of Economic Advisers is wrong to recommend a police response When Trump dog-whistles, the hounds of hate come bounding. That’s why Street Roots convened a group of partners on Sept. 25 to draw the line clearly: Donald Trump’s ...
27 Sep 2019 - Kaia Sand
The congressman from Portland hopes to flip the script on centuries of government-sanctioned discrimination Congressman Earl Blumenauer doesn’t consider himself naive. He’s been in politics most of his life, from the Portland City Council to serving Orego ...
13 Sep 2019 - Joanne Zuhl