Housing crisis, evictions prompt renewed calls for action This week, the Community Alliance of Tenants declared a renter state of emergency. It’s a state many people have been living in for a long time. Considering the trauma involved when people cannot f ...
11 Sep 2015 - SR editorial board
It may be the first time in recent memory that affordable housing and homelessness will play a leading role in the 2016 election cycle. On one side of this issue is a business community fed up with homelessness. On the other side is a community filled wit ...
17 Sep 2015 - Israel Bayer
A decisive response from City Council is urgently needed Portland is in a state of emergency. Throughout the city, landlords are issuing evictions – even clearing out entire buildings. Tenants who aren’t evicted remain in danger of being priced out, as wa ...
24 Sep 2015 - Katrina Holland and Justin Buri