former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin. At the time, Donald Trump was in the White House, the ... sworn in for both the White House and the Senate, leading to the passage of the $1.9 trillion American ... Peter DeFazio (D-Eugene) has introduced a corresponding bill in the House. The bill’s moniker comes from ...
5 May 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
Portlanders are very generous; they supported the Portland housing bond. I don’t believe there has been any ... Portland housing bond. I was proud to be the administrator of that through the housing bureau, of which I’m ... the promises of the 2016 housing bond. So on the built environment, we’re doing the best we can. We ...
14 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl and Emily Green and Jessica Pollard
30-year, $653 million Metro housing bond voters passed in 2018 and the $258 million bond Portlanders passed ... became homeless and if those placed in housing were able to retain their housing, Portland would have ... Affordable housing and support services fall far short of demand. And, as a surge of evictions ...
28 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
impact of the Portland and Metro housing bonds, which total more than $900 million for affordable ... housing. Marisa Zapata, director of Portland State University's Homelessness Research & Action ... conference about a comprehensive PSU report on homelessness and housing insecurity in the Portland tri-county ...
20 Aug 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
talking with House Speaker Tina Kotek. Kotek (D-North Portland) speaks of the 2019 long session like ... is our primary affordable housing bonding program, I think we were only at $80 million. Now we’re at ... bonds for permanent supportive housing will also benefit places around the state. There is one ...
12 Jul 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
beyond Portland's boundaries J.Z.: You call for funding for the National Housing Trust Fund, which ... . Constitutional Amendment on housing bonds: Lawmakers put to the ballot an amendment to allow local governments ... to use taxpayer-backed bonds to support affordable housing. As written, the constitution prohibits ...
16 Mar 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
Portland in recent weeks to promote his new book and to be the featured speaker for “Democracy Reborn: ... are just the symptoms. Chris Hedges: What’s going on is that the social bonds that make a healthy ... society possible have been broken. And until those bonds are repaired, things are only going to get worse. ...
5 Oct 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
metropolitan hubs such as Portland, Seattle and San Francisco. “There is literally no available housing, let ... Cranes are in the sky over Portland. And rural Oregon is in the throes of one of the worst housing crises ... Rural Oregon is experiencing one of the worst housing crises of our lifetime Elizabeth Reyes grew ...
1 Dec 2017 - Joanne Zuhl