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The problem with that home on the range

The wide open spaces and complex housing needs prompt Northeast Oregon’s housing authority to ramp up outreach to people in need The housing authority that provides federal low-income housing to the northeastern corner of Oregon hopes to launch a housing ...

24 May 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
How rural is rural? Housing advocates want narrower definition

A new 'frontier' designation would benefit Oregon’s small, remote communities that now compete with suburbs for construction money, they argue – but the state isn’t so sure Housing and social services advocates throughout northeastern Oregon hav ...

17 May 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
Housing on the Oregon Coast: What about The Big One?

Mitigating Clatsop County’s housing crisis is complicated by another looming emergency: the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami In a recent conversation with a rural Clatsop County woman, she spoke of her housing options for retirement between Astoria and War ...

10 May 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
Historic boarding house fills need for modern homelessness in Astoria

Helping Hands maximizes space by using the building as a group-housing re-entry program rather than renting out units In November, Helping Hands, a reentry and outreach nonprofit serving those who are experiencing homelessness, opened an Astoria facility. ...

12 Apr 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
NW Oregon coastal residents being priced out of homes, study confirms

Clatsop County has more housing units than it has residents, but many are second homes that are vacant most of the year It isn’t that there is a shortage of housing in Northwest Oregon’s Clatsop County; it is that a lot of the housing is out of reach to y ...

12 Apr 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
Astoria nonprofit fills bellies while filling a need

Filling Empty Bellies ensures access to a meal and fosters trust in vulnerable communities ASTORIA – On a still sunny fall day, two women sit in the grass by the Columbia River to eat their lunch: cheesy potatoes, cooked carrots and chicken. The meal is s ...

29 Mar 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
Rural Oregon food pantries: Reflections from a photojournalist

While covering housing in Ontario, Street Roots photographer Celeste Noche discovers that food can be a unifier While reporting on rural housing in Ontario, Street Roots reporter Emilly Prado and I visited two food pantries run by Next Chapter Food Pantr ...

9 Nov 2018 - Celeste Noche
Ontario, Oregon: A Section 8 pit stop turned long-term stay

Some refugees who moved here because of the short waitlist for housing aid have been unable to transfer their vouchers elsewhere as quickly as they had hoped Ontario, Ore., was never really supposed to be home – at least not for many of the city’s recentl ...

26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
How a refugee in Ontario, Oregon, helps others get the aid they need

Ekram Ahmed continues to embrace a life of independence in the face of adversity Ekram Ahmed spent many years living in fear and with a ferocious sense of self. Her parents lived in Sudan before she was born, but a military coup led by Omar al-Bashir in ...

26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado
A refugee’s need for support as a child inspired his path

Abdikadir Abdi helps a burgeoning Somali community in Ontario, Oregon Abdikadir Abdi’s childhood looked strikingly different from what his own children and the Somali refugee community’s children experience in the Pacific Northwest today. Abdi was born i ...

26 Oct 2018 - Emilly Prado