The check is no longer in the mail Instead, 285 Section 8 recipients in Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook counties got an eye-opening letter from the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority, or NOHA. The letters informed the tenants that as of July 1, they would ...
4 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Street Roots wins honors from Society of Professional Journalists Street Roots writers Mara Grunbaum, Tye Doudy and Joanne Zuhl took home honors from the Oregon and Southwest Washington Society of Professional Journalists May 30. The event honors journal ...
1 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Street Roots chimes in on baseball in Lents Street Roots editorial coming out in the May 29 edition. The city of Portland is pushing the idea of using $42 million – mostly from Portland Urban Renewal funds — to build a minor league baseball stadium in Len ...
28 May 2009 - Street Roots
Walking on an incline Hacienda CDC battles for supportive housing in Northeast Portland By Joanne Zuhl Staff writer It is not difficult to spot Hacienda CDC-supported housing. It is by design the most colorful housing in the Cully neighborhood — now 400 u ...
1 May 2009 - Street Roots
Act Now! Important housing measures hang in the balance in State Legislature Several measures before Oregon lawmakers have the potential to fortify the state’s housing stock and preserve units for lower income, elderly and disabled Oregonians. Keep your e ...
19 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! In like a lion, as they say- March as definitely arrived! Why not celebrate this weekend with the latest edition of Street Roots, hot off the press and in your neighborhood vendor’s hands on Friday morning. Here’s what you will be enjoying s ...
5 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Low income housing funds in recovery bill in jeopardy Senate "moderates" of both parties have agreed on a list of cuts in the economic recovery bill. Reports from the Hill are that low income housing funds previously in the bill could be cut. Lo ...
6 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Act Now! Put your voice behind sustainable affordable housing funds A document recording fee for affordable housing is currently making it’s way through the Oregon legislative process. The new law would raise the nominal fee for recording documents in dee ...
5 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Financial crisis ripples through affordable housing corporations in Portland From the Dec. 12 special affordable housing edition, "In need of a new deal." In 1986, while the Reagan administration was busy slashing and burning its federal housing ...
24 Dec 2008 - Street Roots
When is new housing not new? When it's reprogrammed From the Dec. 12 special affordable housing edition, "In need of a new deal." Portland's efforts to build a net gain of affordable housing for its lowest income residents have failed ...
24 Dec 2008 - Street Roots