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At Portland’s Milepost 5, safety and health violations lingered, records show
A prominent low-income housing developer took more than a year to fix potentially dangerous code violations at its Milepost 5 building, even after receiving millions in public funds to improve living conditions. Records obtained by Street Roots show 25 code violations remained open for 15 months at Milepost 5, a troubled affordable housing development once…
County’s highly successful motel shelters face lack of support from state, city
At the edge of Delta Park in North Portland, an old red-and-blue Motel 6 sign still stands over the property, a remnant of its former life as a roadside motel. Today, it is something different: the Delta Park Motel Shelter, a county-funded site where 67 people (and a few pets) live in private rooms with…
Corvallis officials promise to address homelessness, offer few concrete details
This is a follow-up to an Oct. 30 article about homelessness in Corvallis. Corvallis officials take heat from local advocates, but city councilors promise they want to do more to address homelessness. Eventually. First, some of them want to see what the rest of Benton County is going to do over the next couple of…
