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Breaking: Safety net funding prevails in city budget hearing

Breaking: Safety net funding prevails in city budget hearing By Joanne Zuhl Staff Writer After months of speculation over budget cuts and service reductions, Portland’s safety net for the homeless and poor has tentatively been restored in this morning’s C ...

30 May 2012 - Street Roots
Nick Fish delivers the state of housing, a Portland story

Nick Fish delivers the state of housing, a Portland story By Nick Fish, Contributing Columnist This week I presented my fourth housing budget to the City Council. It is a good time to reflect on the progress we have made together, the challenges we face, ...

24 Apr 2012 - Street Roots
Parks bureau to create new rangers to patrol public parks

Parks bureau to create new rangers to patrol public parks BY JAKE THOMAS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Portland Parks and Recreation’s contract for downtown security services is coming up for renewal. And with the season’s change is in the air. Currently, a subsid ...

12 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
Portland gets funding for people living with HIV/AIDS on the skids

Portland gets funding for people living with HIV/AIDS on the skids Back in March Street Roots reported on people experiencing homelessness with HIV/AIDS with the story Positive in poverty. In 2010, we also reported on the HIV/AIDS community losing funding ...

27 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
Fish rolls out fair housing plan, answers allegations of going soft on landlords

Fish rolls out fair housing plan, answers allegations of going soft on landlords By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Housing Commissioner Nick Fish rolled out his fair housing action plan this morning in reaction to an audit earlier this year that found consider ...

10 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Fish pledges enforcement, education against housing discrimination

Fish pledges enforcement, education against housing discrimination By Joanne Zuhl Staff Writer An audit of the city’s fair housing practices completed nearly four months ago has recently set tongues wagging over what the city is going to do with the high ...

12 May 2011 - Street Roots
Breakdown: Proposed budget cuts could drastically alter local services

Breakdown: Proposed budget cuts could drastically alter local services By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Homeless and low-income advocates, service providers, and policymakers were put on notice when the Republican-controlled — and Tea Party infused — Hou ...

28 Mar 2011 - Street Roots
Street Roots joins housing group on a two-day peer learning trip to Seattle

Street Roots joins housing group on a two-day peer learning trip to Seattle Street Roots is joining Commissioner Nick Fish later today (by bus due to a mudslide along the Amtrak line) — along with an array of city and county representatives, the Portland ...

2 Mar 2011 - Street Roots
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times at the Portland Housing Bureau

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times at the Portland Housing Bureau The past two years at the Portland Housing Bureau have seen some enormous changes, ranging from the merger of the Bureau and Housing and Community Development and portions ...

24 Feb 2011 - Street Roots
Holding up the roof at the House

Holding up the roof at the House By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Housing Alliance is finalizing its advocacy agenda for the 2011 legislative cycle and preparing the case it will make to the state Legislature regarding why the state should support an ...

31 Jan 2011 - Street Roots