Housing
Homeless Portlanders report ongoing issues retrieving personal items after sweeps
Although it’s a chilly 45 degrees out, Garrett Troupe and Mackenzie B sat at a metal table outside the Starbucks in the Portland State University Urban Center because their dog, Luna, would not handle the sights and smells of the coffee shop with any moderate amount of excitement. As Troupe lets out a sigh of…
All Good Northwest opens seasonal shelter in North Portland
As the most bitter winter months hit Portland, local nonprofit All Good Northwest opened a seasonal overnight shelter in North Portland at the Portsmouth Union Church with funding from the Joint Office of Homeless Services. The shelter marks a departure from other current county-operated or funded extreme cold shelters, which open for a limited time…
News
All Good Northwest opens seasonal shelter in North Portland
As the most bitter winter months hit Portland, local nonprofit All Good Northwest opened a seasonal overnight shelter in North Portland at the Portsmouth Union Church with funding from the Joint Office of Homeless Services. The shelter marks a departure from other current county-operated or funded extreme cold shelters, which open for a limited time…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | Street Roots’ new building prioritizes wheelchair access
Flying chairs, ascending rooms, steam-powered elevators descending into mines. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. For millennia, people have called elevators many names and tried a great deal of technologies. The earliest account of an elevator describes how Archimedes wound ropes around a drum in the second…
Opinion | Portland does not have the highest taxes in the country
The local press is again spreading a deceptive business lobbyist talking point, claiming that taxes in the Portland metro area are the highest in the country. It’s just not true. Mary C. King is a professor emerita of economics, Portland State University. Total state and local taxes in Oregon, reported by the U.S. Census Bureau…
