A Jan. 11 memo suggests Gonzalez halted tent distribution to align with mayor’s camping ban Foreshadowing things to come, Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez halted tent distribution by Portland Fire and Rescue personnel, including Portland Street Respons ...
2 Aug 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Black & Beyond the Binary Collective event raises funds and awareness for ongoing housing instability crisis Revered Portland drag queen Marla Darling pretended everything was okay. She wasn’t telling her coworkers, but she was living in a garage. Dar ...
26 Jul 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Legislative session ends with a mixed bag on housing issues as human toll continues The 2023 Oregon Legislature convened Jan. 17. Melisa Blake died from hypothermia four days later in a downtown Salem parking lot. Legislators came to Salem with an energet ...
12 Jul 2023 - Tom Henderson
Oregon Housing and Community Services awards grants to tribes for homebuying, improvements Oregon Housing and Community Services, or OHCS, seeks to lessen the disproportionate homeownership gap for Native Americans by offering homeownership assistance gra ...
12 Jul 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
In a city where homeless people are already much more likely to face arrest than housed people, officials have a ‘new’ proposal: warn, fine and arrest homeless Portlanders Update: Portland City Council passed the ordinance discussed in this story June 7. ...
6 Jun 2023 - K. Rambo
Despite bumps in the road, Project Turnkey seeks to turn more hotels into shelters David Boone, a 72-year-old Salem man, usually sleeps on the ground, but for one night, he slept in a palace. It had an actual bed with a mattress, box spring and clean shee ...
31 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
An urgent need for supportive housing voiced in the Legislature, but lawmakers continue broad focus on housing supply Jean Hendron had a lot to say about a bill to allow commercial spaces to be used as residential housing, but she chose not to use words. ...
17 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
Tenant legal representation is on the ballot in May Voters can weigh in on a watershed moment in the county’s housing crisis with county Measure 26-238. If passed, the measure would levy a capital gains tax to fund legal representation for tenants in all ...
26 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
The state began a phase-in process for eliminating parking requirements at the beginning of the year. Experts say the state's housing construction might boom this summer when regulations end. Beginning Jan. 3, some parking mandates in Oregon housing ...
12 Apr 2023 - Christine Menges
Amid inflation and high rent costs, Senate Bill 611 seeks to strengthen rent control, tenants rights President Lyndon Johnson said, "Education is the only valid passport from poverty," but 58 years later, Andrea Haverkamp said a lot of highly ed ...
12 Apr 2023 - Tom Henderson