Portland voters overwhelmingly passed an affordable-housing bond for $258 million. The bond's purpose ... follow him on Twitter @israelbayer. Director's Desk Portland Housing Bond Print ... @israelbayer. The bond itself followed a series of policy decisions by Portland officials to create and maintain ...
13 Oct 2017 - Israel Bayer
Pilot Project and others. We are seeing results from the Portland and Metro Housing Bonds, and the Metro ... Director's Desk | At least 9 Street Roots vendors have moved from homelessness into housing ... keys tomorrow.” “I’m getting housing.” “The apartment is mine.” Street Roots’ mission is to create ...
13 Jul 2022 - Kaia Sand
Washington County chair will also be up for re-election. 3. Track the implementation of housing bond and ... 2016 (and I’ll write an update on all the housing projects in the coming months). Both the Portland ... Housing Bond and Metro Bond have public oversight meetings. While those bonds were both big victories, ...
5 Jan 2022 - Kaia Sand
. And thus, many people live without housing. Together, the Portland and Metro housing bonds aim to ... Portland Housing Bond project began construction with Home Forward — the construction of 206 housing units ... housing bond money. These bonds are having to function within a housing system that, as former United ...
13 Oct 2021 - Kaia Sand
unfortunately, only the tip of the iceberg). The Metro and Portland housing bonds will get us more than 10% of ... into housing, like a firework spreading over the Portland sky. Portland city and Multnomah County ... than most of those created by the regional housing bonds: these are former motels operating as shelters ...
3 Nov 2021 - Kaia Sand
in the last five years taxpayers have stepped up in Portland to fund a housing bond, and then the ... whole Metro region to fund a housing bond and a homelessness services measure. But the scale of what we ... Kaia Sand | A key piece of legislation could create inroads to addressing the housing crisis with ...
27 Oct 2021 - Kaia Sand
housing wages and provide benefits. This is a story of shared visions. It’s the story of carrying forward ... into shelters and eventually housing, a program called Project Turnkey. The Econo Lodge in which ... Greater Good Northwest now hosts its transitional housing program was one of those motels. In total, the ...
14 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. Ryan’s policy director, Mark Bond, brought ... policies and court decisions. Those include the Shelter to Housing Continuum the City Council passed in the ... policy, of course, isn’t written that way — in fact, Bond, of Ryan’s office, made clear that ...
7 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
who survive deprivations right before our eyes and the many more we can’t see, who are housing ... a ramshackle house sunk into the wetlands that edged a highway, The Washington Post came to my doorstep, and ... his readers than those who suffered, but because he formed strong bonds, spoke Arabic and suffered the ...
12 May 2021 - Kaia Sand
where her brother, Robert Delgado, was fatally shot by Portland police Officer Zachary DeLong in Lents ... PERSPECTIVES: Word Is Bond's Lakayana Drury and Multnomah County D.A. Mike Schmidt reflect on the Chauvin ... trial A memorial in Portland's Lents Park honors Robert Delgado, who was killed by a Portland ...
21 Apr 2021 - Kaia Sand