Under the bipartisan legislation, a nonprofit would verify that a person was experiencing homelessness, and the state would waive the fee to obtain photo identification P hoto identification is required for everything from opening a bank account to cashin ...
31 Mar 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
Inside, Oregon lawmakers and special interests wrestle with homelessness. Outside, on the streets of Salem, people experience it. As Oregon legislators grapple with homelessness, a woman living on the streets outside the state Capitol in Salem grapples wi ...
31 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson
America needs to invest in housing infrastructure that provides all of us safety and stability Like the air we breathe and the food we eat, housing is a basic human need. But even before the pandemic hit, our housing system was already broken. We’ve seen ...
24 Mar 2021 - Brook Fadley
Staffers aren’t trained to care for this kind of patient — but they have no choice as the pandemic creates more vacancies that must be filled One year ago, a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, became an early battleground for the U.S. coronavirus out ...
24 Mar 2021 - Don Martin
OPINION | We must build on these transformative gains, which have been necessary all along T iny house villages on city land. Car and RV safe parking. Motels purchased for housing. Public toilets. Cash for the poor. These are some gains made for people li ...
24 Mar 2021 - Kaia Sand
As this Southern Oregon community wooed tourists and retirees, its population outpaced construction of workforce housing This story is part of a series examining housing and homelessness issues in Southern Oregon’s Josephine County. Under a canopy of P ...
17 Mar 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
The Aloha representative, who brings lived experience with poverty to her leadership role on a housing committee, speaks for young people who demand action on the housing and climate crises they’ve inherited W hen Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, 7 ...
3 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson
A roundup of legislation in the House Committee on Housing The House Committee on Housing is grappling with housing for Oregon’s farmworkers — an estimated 178,758 workers and their family members, according to Oregon State University. House Bill 2096, wh ...
3 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson
OPINION | Tell the City Council that Portland needs to expand options for houseless residents Parking lots where people in cars and RVs can safely park while accessing hygiene services. Campsites supported by garbage pickup, hand-washing stations and port ...
3 Mar 2021 - Kaia Sand
Now, homeless residents can sleep in the park at night, but many have nowhere to go in the morning This story is part of a series examining housing and homelessness issues in Southern Oregon’s Josephine County. Gloria “Sue” Johnson, 70, has lived in th ...
24 Feb 2021 - Hanna Merzbach