– 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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