advocacy at the Oregon Housing Alliance in Portland, said. "There are accompanying investments in ... to build new housing and provide more shelter beds and other services for people experiencing ... matter how many housing units are built, how much rental assistance is offered, how many shelter beds are ...
3 Apr 2024 - Tom Henderson
years later, she still considers herself part of the Grants Pass community but said the housed residents ... their minds,” Gutowski said. “Housing as community infrastructure” Doug Walker, a retired builder and ... member of the city’s Housing Advisory Committee, seems to never stop working. This winter, Walker and his ...
3 Apr 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
white. The paper is tattered on all sides. Hand-processed mineral and botanical pigments recreate three ... exhibition at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, or PICA, sets out to consider the history of ... that the history is as important as the events of the 2020 uprising, during which Portland Police, or ...
20 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
had, but also, they lost every access to culture, house of worship, schools, mosques, and every single ... thing that makes life there possible.” The vote comes just five days after at least 1,000 Portlanders ... demonstration gathered at downtown Portland’s Lownsdale Square the afternoon of March 2 before the crowd marched ...
6 Mar 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
The arrival of COVID-19, fentanyl and rising housing costs create major challenges in every US ... Behavioral Health Resource Networks, or BHRNs. BHRNs increased access to treatment, housing and harm ... voiced support for changing state law. Oregon House Bill 4002, proposed Jan. 23 by a joint legislative ...
7 Feb 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
housing, homelessness, substance use issues and the upcoming surplus tax kicker Jean Hendron kissed Ricky ... session held during even-numbered years. A packed agenda includes addressing housing, homelessness, ... 1537) calling for $500 million to create more housing. Another bill, Legislative Concept 158, recommends ...
31 Jan 2024 - Tom Henderson
as 2016, the Portland Housing Bureau ran the emergency shelters, although at a smaller capacity. The ... assess. Residents across the region lost power and water for days, leaving even housed people vulnerable. ... is housing and a society with a strong safety net. But in an emergency, it is about strong but nimble ...
24 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
hypothermia deaths on Jan. 12 and Jan. 13 in Portland’s latest winter storm, though the housing status of the ... months hit Portland, local nonprofit All Good Northwest opened a seasonal overnight shelter in North ... Portland at the Portsmouth Union Church with funding from the Joint Office of Homeless Services. The ...
17 Jan 2024 - K. Rambo
city’s temporary sites to help homeless Portlanders transition to permanent housing, but it hasn’t been ... transitions to housing and other resources. The homeless Portlander said when they checked into Clinton ... Portland's Reedway Safe Rest Village, or SRV, on a cold December afternoon. They were there to meet with ...
10 Jan 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
regardless of whether one has money or the trappings of housing — these chairs add powerful symbolism to the ... vendor, is hand-building brightly colored benches. Over the next two months, designer and artist Cole ... finding a way to both house their families and earn income in a society that forbid them from owning ...
10 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand