Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency July 22 due to the impending danger of extreme heat, but city contractors continued sweeping homeless encampments until at least July 25 at noon While city and county agencies, as well as mutual aid groups, ...
3 Aug 2022 - K. Rambo
“Homelessness is not a political issue. It’s about human lives.” What was once a battered Econo Lodge, a strip of rooms bordering a blacktop asphalt parking lot near downtown Hillsboro, is now a flagship rehousing project offering temporary transitional h ...
3 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Pandemic-era rent assistance and eviction protections are dwindling. In a state with skyrocketing rent, tenants struggle to keep up. "There's a really wide array of people who end up finding themselves homeless,” Leeor Schweitzer said. Schweitze ...
3 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Multnomah County tenants' advocacy group seeks to place a ballot measure ensuring the right to legal representation if their landlord tries to evict Courts are evicting Oregonians by the thousands. An untold number more aren't included in offici ...
27 Jul 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Street Services Coordination Center offering fewer shelter referrals as sweeps increase Crystal Kelly has lived in a tent near a bus station in Old Town for months. Homeless for a few years now, she’s been trying, as she puts it, “to get clean, to stay ou ...
20 Jul 2022 - Tyler Walicek and K. Rambo
Unhoused Portlanders swept using the tactic say it undermines safety, stability and human dignity What’s the difference between moving with one hour’s notice and 72 hours’ notice? “A lot,” DJ Husar, Street Roots vendor, said. The city swept Husar, an unho ...
6 Jul 2022 - K. Rambo
In the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, residents gathered at a public forum last June to voice their concerns about the city’s growing population of homeless individuals. Over the last decade, rent grew twice as fast in Portland as the rest of the ...
29 Jun 2022 - Melissa Lewis
The city extends the legal window for sweeps by posting and reposting encampments, which can cause distress and logistical issues for unhoused Portlanders Imagine being told you have between three and 10 days to move, with no way of knowing if the time wi ...
22 Jun 2022 - K. Rambo
The housing shortage plays a role, but building more homes won't fix the affordability crisis. If someone lives in Oregon, there’s a low probability their rent is considered affordable. Half of all Oregon renters spend more than 30% of their income o ...
1 Jun 2022 - Piper McDaniel
City officials did not say if background checks are being considered Neighborhood associations expanded a demand for residents of Safe Rest Villages near schools to undergo criminal background checks in a May 16 email to Mayor Ted Wheeler and city commiss ...
25 May 2022 - Piper McDaniel