Rental assistance is a proven tool for ending and preventing homelessness. Too bad Portland’s housing market isn’t cooperating. Julius Brown and his fiancée, Denise William, thought they had found the perfect home after moving into a two-bedroom apartment ...
4 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Mother’s Day, 2010: A view from the street By Nana M., Contributing Columnist Surreal…an out-of-body experience…can’t really be happening to me. I wandered around near my old home in southeast Portland, searching for a likely place to lay my sleeping bag, ...
12 Oct 2010 - Street Roots
Loss of low-cost housing routing poor from downtown Affordable housing for Portland’s poorest residents has declined significantly in the city center, even as more high-end housing increased. According to the Central City Housing Inventory, released in Ju ...
1 Sep 2009 - Street Roots