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2022 Elections | Commissioner of Labor and Industries

workers to receive equal, non-discriminatory treatment at work, in housing and public accommodations ... restaurant in Bend. Helt served as the representative for Oregon House District 54, which includes Bend, from ... 2018 to 2020. Helt ran for House District 54 in 2020 as the incumbent but lost the election, as well as ...

21 Sep 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
HUD launches affordable housing and rehousing initiative to combat national homelessness crisis

a flagship rehousing project offering temporary transitional housing to homeless people. Washington County ... homelessness and adopt evidence-based approaches to serving the unhoused. The county joined Housing and Urban ... Development’s House America initiative, a landmark national effort rallying cities to deploy federal funding for ...

3 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Kaia Sand | Street Roots sends a message of 'HOPE'

Carly Ng, Kodee Zarnke and Kanani Cortez projected the image — the hand and heart created by Portland ... as he continued to gaze at the bright, hand-painted 30-foot by 20-foot banner that Street Roots ... staff, vendors and supporters dropped from a building on the prominent Portland corner Friday morning. ...

10 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | How Street Roots found its new space

a map of properties printed from Portland Maps clutched in my hand. Kaia Sand is the executive director ... was important to us that a prominent and visible Portland building support people who are ... a nice full-circle: He credits Street Roots for helping stabilize his life so he could be housed for ...

17 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Climate change harms poor people and must be dealt with equitably

I'm proud that Street Roots received a Portland Clean Energy Fund grant Our city is poised to ... Roots is one of 65 organizations to receive grants from Portland Clean Energy Fund to invest in ... (Portland City Council imposed an additional 45-day due diligence period that organizations have to clear ...

3 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
Lehuauakea uses art to say Native Hawaiians are still here

roots in, or connections to, the Pacific Northwest. B orn in Portland and raised on their ancestral ... two very different places — Hawai’i and Portland. Their work will be on display at the Jordan ... a utilitarian, every day around-the-home kind of sense. I was born in Portland, which is where my parents met, ...

16 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
City contractors swept homeless Portlanders during state of emergency

experience witnessing sweeps first hand and speaking with homeless Portlanders in the aftermath of sweeps, ... in Portland. The problem with the internal data, according to the city, is it’s unreliable. In ... record-breaking heat wave highlights just how down to the wire sweeps were. Portland was under a state of ...

3 Aug 2022 - K. Rambo
Kaia Sand | Central City Concern transformed a hotel into housing

hotels in Portland similar to River Haven: in good shape, with hotel amenities, housing 70-80 people. ... Opinion | Portland should build a local Project Turnkey Program The Comfort Inn sign is now ... wrapped in black plastic, but plenty of hotel amenities remain at River Haven, a housing program for ...

15 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
Old Town’s 90-day ‘reset’ yields sweeps with little notice, no advance postings

Unhoused Portlanders swept using the tactic say it undermines safety, stability and human dignity ... Street Roots vendor, said. The city swept Husar, an unhoused Portlander who’s lived in the city for the ... at least 72 hours’ notice to unhoused Portlanders before city contractors remove them from a given ...

6 Jul 2022 - K. Rambo
Street Roots vendor profile | More stability means more time for creativity

With housing and a new job, Johnny has more time to pursue his art Johnny Rottin is excited to ... to gain a job, housing and the opportunity to work on his art. You may have met Johnny at the Street ... Roots Open House at its new office, 219 W. Burnside St., where he was the spokesperson for the Street ...

15 Jun 2022 - Robin Havenick