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  1. Director’s Desk: Springwater Corridor challenges community’s will

    What I've been asked about homelessness and this East Portland corridor The Springwater Corridor is a 21-mile multiuse path and trail that runs through both Clackamas and Multnomah County, traveling through both Gresham and Portland.  The path follow ...

    21 Jul 2016 - Israel Bayer

  2. Director’s Desk: With no housing and another trip to the E.R. How will Simon’s story end?

    Homelessness is anything but normal Standing in line waiting for dinner after a long day, a day after returning from vacation, I checked my email. It was a hospital social worker. Simon was in the emergency room again. The fourth time this week.  It was a ...

    14 Jul 2016 - Israel Bayer

  3. Director's Desk: America's homeless emergency is mandmade. It can be solved.

    The federal government needs to step up on homeless funding, policies Homelessness is hell, especially during the winter months. This past week, during one of the downpours, I witnessed a homeless woman so soaked to the bone that she simply sat down in th ...

    10 Dec 2015 - Israel Bayer

  4. City, county pledge to invest additional $30 million to pay for housing and shelter beds

    The new investment will go to support "A Home For Everyone," a community partnership to end homelessness Mayor Charlie Hales and Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury announced this morning a $30 million city and county commitment to support ne ...

    30 Sep 2015 - Israel Bayer

  5. Groundswell pushes housing issues to the forefront in Portland

    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

  6. Director’s Desk: Times call for a fresh approach to tent cities

    Tent cities might not be popular, but they're a lot more effective than doing nothing It’s time for the city and county to support scaling up the tent city model in our region. Being able to find a permanent location for Right 2 Dream Too on the east ...

    3 Sep 2015 - Israel Bayer

  7. Director's Desk: Homelessness series packed with many lessons

    Oregonian reporter Anna Griffin talks with Israel Bayer about her special report on homelessness in Portland Anna Griffin has been around the block. After spending 10 years at the Charlotte Observer, Griffin moved west to take a job at The Oregonian. Her ...

    12 Mar 2015 - Israel Bayer

  8. What will it take to end homelessness?

    Portland, like many cities throughout the United States, finds itself at a crossroads. How do we collectively tackle the housing crisis and begin to really put the resources needed into ending homelessness? Anna Griffin’s series on homelessness in The Ore ...

    18 Feb 2015 - Israel Bayer

  9. Ending homelessness starts with human rights

    A common misnomer in many communities, including Portland, is that when you offer services to people experiencing homelessness and poverty, you attract more people experiencing homelessness. We call it the magnet myth. The reality is this kind of thinking ...

    30 Jan 2015 - Israel Bayer

  10. Oregonian series an opportunity to seize the moment

    A lot people in the housing community, for better or worse, are worked up over Anna Griffin’s ongoing series on homelessness in The Oregonian. Get used to it. A new story will come out every Friday for the next six weeks. Wait, does this mean I’m promotin ...

    23 Jan 2015 - Israel Bayer

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