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
Residents in Portland and within the Metro regional government have passed massive bonds earmarked to ... to be determined. The Multnomah County and city of Portland Joint Office of Homeless Services ... residents on the streets, in shelter and in transitional housing – all included in the federal definition of ...
2 Aug 2019 - SR editorial board
affordable housing. Measure 102 and Measure 26-199 – the Metro Housing Bond – will build and preserve ... Street Roots Partnership for Safety and Justice Metro Housing Bond Print ... Safety and Justice, four of us have backgrounds in housing or homeless services. At Partnership for ...
19 Oct 2018 - Talia Gad
2015-17:-11.6% What they are doing about it Portland voters in November passed an affordable-housing bond to ... methodology in 2017) What they are doing about it Like Portland, Seattle has declared a state of housing ... staggering. The county has responded by passing a $1 billion affordable housing bond in November, followed by ...
22 Jun 2017 - Street Roots
– to the tune of at least $750 million per year, according to its analysis. The Portland-based think ... their failed Clean Energy Jobs bill, House Bill 2020, in an unsuccessful effort to get support for the ... House Bill 2659, which would have made the receipt of timber subsidies contingent upon good land ...
18 Oct 2019 - Emily Green
(Director's Desk) • Housing as a public safety concern: Yes on the housing bond (commentary) Measure 103 • ... News and opinions about the 2018 Oregon and Portland-area races and ballot measures Editorial ... out-of-state interests READ ALL OF STREET ROOTS' 2018 ENDORSEMENTS Candidates Contenders for Portland City ...
19 Oct 2018 - Street Roots
which takes place not in the contemporary, gentrified Portland of Ted Wheeler, the housing crisis and ... ‘Night Dogs’ exposes racial and economic disparity in 1970s Portland The scene is Portland, Ore. ... Black Lives Matter, but in North and Northeast Portland circa 1975. Union Avenue was not yet Martin ...
28 Jun 2019 - Jason Cohen
Portland related to a housing levy and bond. In Seattle, they have been very successful with a housing ... a housing bond in 1981, and when the bond began to run out they launched it as a levy. Portland has at ... approaches that could resonate with people all over Portland and Multnomah County, tying housing to common ...
7 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
COMMENTARY | Housing, climate change and the arts are key issues the Portland city commissioner is ... Street Roots readers – housing, climate change and the arts. Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish Housing ... for being a champion for the Metro bond! Last year, at my urging, Portland and Multnomah County ...
21 Dec 2018 - Nick Fish
Office of Homeless Services, and Shannon Callahan, the interim director of the Portland Housing Bureau, ... or the Portland Housing Bureau will do. Marc Jolin, the Joint Office’s director, confirmed Kafoury ... Portland In the last few years, as Portland continues to experience a dire shortage of affordable housing ...
11 Jan 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe