speaker of the house when the Legislature passed the law in 2021, and she said the intent was to codify, ... Street Roots to Oregon Housing and Community Services, or OHCS, the agency responsible for housing ... is after that,” Ogier said. “Is it to get these people back into housing, or is it to be cruel? ...
30 Aug 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Ministry of Housing estimates about 100,000 people are homeless in Paris and the surrounding region, about ... removing them from the sight line of Olympic sightseers for the short term without long-term housing or ... still lived homeless in this area, discreetly behind an edge of laurels where Chatelain's hand ...
14 Aug 2024 - Kaia Sand
being a really affordable working-class city. When I first moved to Portland, I bought a house, and ... a pretty high-end, pretty cool job, you probably can't afford to buy a house in Southeast Portland, or ... life in many characters. Originally from Nevada, Vlautin has lived in Portland since the ‘90s. He was ...
31 Jul 2024 - Jason Cohen
a series of setbacks for homeless Portlanders trying to seek stable housing and employment. Paperwork and ... continued posting sweep notifications on homeless encampments throughout emergency As Portland experienced ... near-triple-digit heat killed at least six Multnomah County residents of undetermined housing statuses. Rapid ...
24 Jul 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
simple words. Easy to say, yet difficult to live by when life deals a bad hand. To Street Roots vendor ... With the help of Transition Projects, he ultimately signed up for housing. “I stayed at the Bud Clark ... Commons for four months, going through their program,” Vern said. “Then they gave me a housing voucher. ...
24 Jul 2024 - Dieter Loibner
seeking to arrest, fine and jail homeless Portlanders. This is old hat for service providers, experts and ... homeless Portlanders. “It's focusing on the wrong thing. It's not going to end homelessness.” ... housing applications. Again, this isn’t an opinion. It’s a fact and one that has been studied and proven ...
3 Jul 2024 - K. Rambo
Kimberly said. "We also hand out naloxone and Narcan, especially with what's been going on with ... a community of about 2,240 people some 55 miles southwest of Portland. Her small library started a food pantry ... have housing. They come to the library every day. They're spending time here. They're using ...
3 Jul 2024 - Tom Henderson
decisions tied the hands of local governments, applauding the Supreme Court’s reversal. “The Court has now ... fate of someone's life in their hands,” Cruz told Street Roots. “What this ruling has done is ... Ed Diehl (R-HD17) said on X shortly after the decision was announced June 28. State House Minority ...
28 Jun 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
CEO. Transition Projects is one of the largest housing and shelter service providers in Portland ... The city’s own policies may undermine efforts to reduce barriers to housing. Portland City Council ... officials. Others want to torpedo the joint homelessness office. Multnomah County and the city of Portland ...
26 Jun 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
well as artifacts from their lives with hand-written descriptions Saron Khut remembers the five years ... hand-written descriptions. These are the objects they brought with them. Saron Khut’s immigration story The ... papers came through in 1981. They flew to San Francisco and then to Portland. Khut describes life in the ...
26 Jun 2024 - Ellen Clarke