Home Again: The Admiral welcomes back displaced residents By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer A chain link fence has enclosed the Admiral Park Apartments between SW Park Avenue and SW Taylor Street for the last 10 months, construction equipment and garbage ...
10 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! In making you’re holiday weekend plans, don’t forget to pick up your new edition of Street Roots. Vendors will be out there rain or shine Friday morning and throughout the weekend with the new issues. Here’s what’s headed your way: Home agai ...
27 May 2010 - Street Roots
Northwest Oregon gets Section 8 bailout from feds The Northwest Oregon Housing Authority, which terminated nearly 300 families from it’s Section 8 program this summer, will receive $800,000 from the federal housing bureau to restore assistance in the tri- ...
2 Sep 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Thanks to all of you who wrote in about our vendors lately. We’ve known how great they are for years, and it’s good to hear it from their customers, too. So, if you haven’t talked to your vendor lately, you’ve got a great reason to swing by ...
20 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Update on NW Oregon Families: Families on the fringe go month-to-month unsure of housing assistance (Jennifer Cherry stands in the doorway of her home, holding the cancellation letter from the housing authority. Photo by Ken Hawkins.) While hundreds of fa ...
12 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
NW Section 8 casualties get some relief HUD: An estimated one out of every 200 Oregonians are homeless Nearly 300 families in Northwest Oregon got some breathing room this month- a one-month extension on assistance to keep them in housing. In late May, th ...
10 Jul 2009 - Street Roots
The Perfect storm: Northwest Oregon’s Section 8 disaster is being repeated across the country From the June 26, edition of Street Roots It has been called a perfect storm. A rare convergence of forces that, on their own, could possibly be withstood, but i ...
8 Jul 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Your summer reading plan gets a little more fun tomorrow morning with the new edition of Street Roots. Your neighborhood vendor can’t wait to deliver the word. Here’s a peak at what’s inside: The perfect storm: A follow-up on the story we br ...
25 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Sen. Wyden calls on HUD to prevent Section 8 terminations, homelessness Sen. Ron Wyden has written a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, calling for assistance for the families in Northwest Oregon who are being dropped from re ...
17 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Update: Oregon Senators may be asking head of HUD for redress Street Roots reported today that 300 households in NW Oregon are being kicked off of Section 8 assistance, essentially rending them homeless. On Thursday and Friday of this week Street Roots j ...
12 Jun 2009 - Street Roots