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We've made progress on housing, thanks to ‘the Portland in us'

COMMENTARY | City Commissioner Dan Saltzman is proud of work done in 2015 A week ago, the Portland Business Alliance came into my office with one of its members. This member had a building downtown that he would be selling in the coming months, but the bu ...

31 Dec 2015 - Dan Saltzman
Portland landlords open doors to veterans

Multnomah County to exceed goal for housing veterans by year’s end, but some will remain homeless Hundreds of letters and phone calls to Portland-area landlords paid off. It’s expected Multnomah County will exceed the target set for ending veteran homeles ...

17 Dec 2015 - Emily Green
Vendor profile: Louis Adams

Louis Adams has moved into Bud Clark Commons after medical issues pushed him to top of waiting list Louis Adams is back indoors after being homeless for 17 years. “It is just like winning the lottery,” he says. Louis had just been chased out of his campin ...

30 Jul 2015 - Leonora Ko
Can 31 cents per hour change the world?

There has been a lot of discussion about income inequality in our country lately — we are living in a time when wealth is concentrated among the richest Americans, and the gap between the richest and everyone else is the widest it’s been since the 1920’s. ...

1 Dec 2014 - Michael Buonocore
Where pot is concerned, legal or not, poverty’s a player

This fall, Oregon voters could make the state the third in the country to legalize marijuana for recreational use. However, what that might mean for Oregonians depends on where they fall on the economic spectrum. If Oregon voters approve Measure 91, which ...

14 Oct 2014 - Jake Thomas
Metro renews focus on creating affordable housing

The greater-Portland area is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. Not only does need drastically outweigh availability — with some waiting years to access housing within their financial means — those who do obtain affordable homes often find them ...

13 Aug 2014 - Emily Green
For the Record April 11-24, 2014

-Percent of runaway youth served by Multnomah County Runaway Youth Services that are reunited with their families: 85-Number of passengers PDX received from flights in February: 1,025,571-Number of flight operations PDX saw in February: 14,877-Percent of O ...

22 Apr 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Oliver Lecture – November 17, 2013

Charles was homeless and looking rough. He was pushing a shopping cart and living under the Burnside Bridge when he was referred to Northwest Pilot Project. He was 56 years old. He had been an unofficial apartment building manager for fifteen years. He l ...

21 Nov 2013 - Susan Emmons
Hunger at home in suburbia

Food insecurity a primary benchmark in our rising suburban poverty It’s lunchtime at Alder Elementary in the east Portland suburb of Gresham, and even though it’s summer, the school’s gym-turned-cafeteria is packed with children. There are about 80 grade ...

15 Aug 2013 - Nathan Gilles
Discrimination ban on Section 8 to become law

For people who use a federal housing voucher subsidy to rent an apartment, one phrase has been a constant barrier: “No Section 8.” Under Oregon law, and despite a whole list of equal rights protections for renters, landlords could legally bar anyone who r ...

27 Jul 2013 - Jake Thomas