households in the Portland region are at risk of homelessness on any given day due simply to high housing ... Services, and Shannon Callahan, the interim director of the Portland Housing Bureau, and directed both of ... sell their property, and this is not the first time during the housing crisis Portland currently faces ...
27 Feb 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
you’re poor and looking for affordable housing in the Portland area, patience is also a daunting ... staying in a shelter, looking for a job and hoping to find stable housing. “Portland is being gentrified,” ... she said. “It’s a high-income city.” The wait is indicative of the housing crisis Portland and similar ...
9 Nov 2018 - John Emshwiller
partnering is already occurring in one case. The Portland-based nonprofit Innovative Housing Solutions Inc. ... Mitigating Clatsop County’s housing crisis is complicated by another looming emergency: the ... her housing options for retirement between Astoria and Warrenton. “Well, I’d love to live in town, ...
10 May 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
the campaign to pass Portland’s first bond for affordable housing, is now rallying its supporters to ... Tigard about how a proposed MAX line in the Southwest Portland would affect affordable housing. Photo by ... the Yellow Line caused in North Portland. The housing strategy and its success will be a test of ...
20 Oct 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
Portland City Council will consider referral of the affordable-housing bond at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 30, at ... , wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of housing. And thousands of Portlanders struggle to find a safe ... homes in Portland. We need to act now to create affordable housing for people who live and work in our ...
16 Jun 2016 - Deborah Kafoury and Dan Saltzman
systemic change – from the housing bonds to rent stabilization, and most recently as the co-chair of the ... from our doorway to housing. He has known too many people who died too early because that’s what the ... streets do. A house key is health care. His legacy is everywhere at Street Roots, from a tailor-made sales ...
1 Mar 2019 - Kaia Sand
been provided to Portland schools by Raphael House and VOA Home Free for 13 years. “Rather than the ... Raphael House, Volunteers of America (VOA) Home Free, Portland Public Schools, and the student health ... realize it, said Emmy Ritter, executive director of Raphael House, which serves survivors of domestic and ...
15 Mar 2019 - Libby Dowsett
opportunity to vote for a Metro Regional Housing Bond in that same election. And on March 7, the Portland ... them to make more housing affordable to more people. A few weeks ago, Mark traveled to Salem with ... several other Street Roots vendors and a busload of Oregon Housing Alliance advocates to argue for the ...
9 Mar 2018 - Kaia Sand
male bond. When Aaron died, it was just like a piece of my son went with him.” Terra has been homeless ... Christmas, she put on a concert for me. She played me ‘House of the Rising Sun.’ I was so taken back. What ... newspaper is sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness and/or extreme poverty as means ...
22 Mar 2019 - Pat Zimmer
Street Roots vendors talk about how they cope with illness For those who are housed, feeling the ... his body healed. “You’ll die eventually if you don’t get housing or get off the streets,” he said. ... got sick. “I had to sleep in the snow. It was freezing. Thankfully they had the Portland Rescue ...
22 Mar 2019 - Helen Hill