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Block 14 at Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery will finally get its due

people had long suspected: a neglected corner of Southeast Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery still held human ... Portland’s oldest continuously operating cemeteries. Those buried there include Thomas Dryer, the first ... editor of The Oregonian; Oregon physician and activist Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy; and Portland founder Asa ...

26 May 2021 - Christen McCurdy
Wyden takes Oregon street response model nationwide

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
Kaia Sand | ‘Why are they shooting people?’

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
Kaia Sand | It’s time to ‘Strengthen Our Roots’ for decades to come

— the same maps of the greater Portland area with 37 regions outlined with a Sharpie that Street Roots ... including surveys on implementing services for Metro’s new supportive services bond; hygiene needs among ... unhoused people for the city; and soon, an evaluation of the Portland Street Response pilot among unhoused ...

7 Apr 2021 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Look to Washington state for ways to fund affordable housing

affordable housing can only be met by a well-funded government program to buy, renovate and build excellent ... public housing. The private sector has not and will not meet our housing needs, and the federal ... government has spent the past 40 years gutting a public housing program that was never adequate. We need to ...

17 Feb 2021 - Mary King
Ted Wheeler | Mayoral candidates weigh in on the crisis on our streets

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
Editorial | In the fight against homelessness, some solutions are right in front of us

affordable-housing bonds and investments — the challenge only increases as the visible need on our streets expands. ... Destructive policy undermines the constructive work being done in Portland "I t always seems ... the hillside community in North Portland from the ground up. Street Roots photo For decades, cities ...

3 Feb 2021 - SR editorial board
SR editorial: Vote for a future where people can get out of homelessness and stay housed

previous Portland and Metro housing bonds (2016 and 2018) like a 1-2 punch. Those bonds secured money for ... through the past housing bonds, that money doesn’t cover the cost of renting apartments to people who make ... a year into the Portland metro region for 10 years. With all the uncertainty stemming from the pandemic, ...

1 May 2020 - SR editorial board
America’s housing crisis is in ‘uncharted territory’

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
Kaia Sand | Today, save motels. Tomorrow, housing.

corrections.” There is no one-time fix — not one housing bond, not one tax measure, not one legislative funding ... state for immediate winter shelter that will be converted into long-term housing. Of those funds, $30 ... “turnkey.” But they also have to be turned into long-term housing. There’s another reason why this is such an ...

2 Dec 2020 - Kaia Sand