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
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
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
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
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
housing public ballot initiative in 2016 and help lay the groundwork for the Metro-wide housing bond in ... way Portland thinks, not just about homelessness and poverty, but the larger social justice movement ... issues of homelessness and housing forward — helping inform readers, the media, the business community ...
4 Oct 2019 - Israel Bayer
direction. We passed the biggest regional housing bond in our history with more than 59 percent of the vote. ... From Austin to Bellingham to Charlotte, housing bonds passed across the country, as did a range of ... a statewide housing bond, passing a $4 billion one. Former Street Roots Executive Director Israel Bayer ...
16 Nov 2018 - Kaia Sand
the Metro Council will hold a public hearing to refer the regional affordable housing bond to voters ... learned from some of the obstacles that the city of Portland has had to overcome with its bond, and they ... Everyone deserves secure, quality housing A couple falls asleep on their mattress, a blanket ...
25 May 2018 - Kaia Sand
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