Portland, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) touted his plan to increase the stock of affordable housing and expand ... housing bonds for affordable housing; boost affordable housing in Indian Country and in rural communities; ... ‘Our housing policy needs a major remodel,’ the senator says During a stop this month in southwest ...
15 Nov 2019 - Christen McCurdy
brick-and-mortar-housing bonds with the assistance necessary to house people in extreme poverty, along with urgently needed ... housing emergency that would fund shelters, navigation centers and housing, as well as proposals to get ... standing were stairwells to nowhere. Some of the organizers fought until the government built 20 houses for ...
14 Feb 2020 - Kaia Sand
Slusarenko and John Moen of the Portland indie rock band Eyelids are in their early 50s. Poet and songwriter ... existence to a couple of teenagers. A few years ago, Slusarenko went to Beckett’s house to pick up his ... Slusarenko’s own rock ’n’ roll resume includes the ’90s Portland Sub Pop band Sprinkler, a stint in Guided By ...
6 Mar 2020 - Jason Cohen
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
and bold enough to put together a big housing bond – $652.8 million over 20 years. All the housing ... for the Portland bond we passed in 2016, and the problem is so big that sometimes, it’s hard to ... notice. But the people who get off the streets and into housing? They notice. Just last week, the Portland ...
21 Sep 2018 - Kaia Sand
it has to stay that way. Bond-funded housing supports Portlanders earning less than 80 percent the ... getting housed at levels they can afford by stretching the impact of general obligation bond dollars. The ... The metro bond is estimated to house 7,500 people, but that extends to 12,000 with the passage of ...
19 Oct 2018 - SR editorial board
Portland measures Measure 26-199: This bond measure would fund affordable housing in Multnomah, Washington, ... and Clackamas Counties. The money from the $652.8 million bond measure would be used to build housing ... households. A bond oversight committee and independent audits would provide accountability. The Portland ...
19 Oct 2018 - Debbie Aiona and Margaret Noel
Wendy and Jeremiah credit their strong relationship and bond with their enduring resilience Wendy ... the community, including the devastation of affordable housing, rendered many in the struggling ... daughter and a cousin in Oregon, and she wanted a new start. She landed in Portland, and soon after, she ...
14 Jun 2019 - Jessica Hamilton
fare-free public transit in Portland Another key aspect to her plan, Pressley said, is access to housing ... housing stock throughout the country,” Pressley said. “It guarantees housing for survivors of crime, and, ... failed to secure housing.” And many who are released from prison do fail to secure housing, Pressley ...
29 Nov 2019 - Adam Sennott
House. Open. Love. Tell. The “love” display in the “Get It On Paper” exhibit at Portland’s Central ... social safety net, and the founding of Welcome Home Coalition, which worked to pass the Portland Housing ... Bond and the Metro Housing Bond. Advocacy is rooted deep with Street Roots, stronger because of the ...
12 Apr 2019 - Kaia Sand