Cheri Helt and Christina Stephenson vie for the nonpartisan Commissioner of Labor and Industries seat, a role that oversees all programs of the Bureau of Labor and Industries The Oregon Commissioner of Labor and Industries, or labor commissioner, is a non ...
21 Sep 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Save for a few exceptions, Drazan’s platform to address housing and homelessness embodies the pro-business, rugged-individualism law-and-order principles part and parcel for Republican politicians More police, police funding and anti-homeless ordinance en ...
21 Sep 2022 - K. Rambo
Landlords send property managers to court in their stead while tenants struggle to represent themselves What happened in eviction court late in the afternoon of Sept. 8 was ordinary — the Multnomah County Circuit Court docket held a roster of tenant-landl ...
14 Sep 2022 - Piper McDaniel
NAYA, which already maintains three affordable development projects in the Cully neighborhood, plans to begin construction on a new project in the Portsmouth neighborhood next year As rents continue to skyrocket, increasing numbers of renters across the U ...
31 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Street Roots talks with key official about the program’s aims to alleviate homelessness by year’s end Communities across the country face an unprecedented rate of homelessness. Once considered a phenomenon generally confined to big cities by the public an ...
26 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Cost of living, inflation and ongoing pandemic impacts contribute to record levels of poverty "It feels like I’m the string quartet on the Titanic," M. said — referencing the quartet playing as the ship sank — while they cradled two paper grocer ...
17 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency July 22 due to the impending danger of extreme heat, but city contractors continued sweeping homeless encampments until at least July 25 at noon While city and county agencies, as well as mutual aid groups, ...
3 Aug 2022 - K. Rambo
“Homelessness is not a political issue. It’s about human lives.” What was once a battered Econo Lodge, a strip of rooms bordering a blacktop asphalt parking lot near downtown Hillsboro, is now a flagship rehousing project offering temporary transitional h ...
3 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Pandemic-era rent assistance and eviction protections are dwindling. In a state with skyrocketing rent, tenants struggle to keep up. "There's a really wide array of people who end up finding themselves homeless,” Leeor Schweitzer said. Schweitze ...
3 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Multnomah County tenants' advocacy group seeks to place a ballot measure ensuring the right to legal representation if their landlord tries to evict Courts are evicting Oregonians by the thousands. An untold number more aren't included in offici ...
27 Jul 2022 - Piper McDaniel