The state is reopening the application process after the first round revealed inherent challenges There is hardly a population of people who face more barriers to securing affordable housing than those who live with severe mental illnesses, such as schizo ...
29 Dec 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Transgender advocates ramp up efforts to help people change their documents as they anticipate threats to LGBTQ rights The transgender community has gained more civil liberties during the administration of President Barack Obama than at any other time in ...
11 Dec 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Murray Cox is examining the impact of the homestay company on gentrification and vacancy rates Murray Cox was teaching children in Brooklyn, N.Y., about maps and statistics related to gentrification when he began to think about how Airbnb might be contrib ...
19 Nov 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Through dialogue and the stage, Johnny Stallings helps inmates step back from their troubled lives It is Saturday, Sept. 24, and a dozen men imprisoned in Two Rivers Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in Umatilla, wait in the prison’s visi ...
9 Oct 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
With few shade trees and a lot of pavement, Portland’s hottest neighborhoods are also some of the city’s poorest Portland, unlike the rest of the nation, has had a relatively cool summer this year. Even so, 2016 has so far been the hottest year on record ...
1 Sep 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Jamal Gardner hopes to revitalize the troubled Portland park, build community with good food and music The low, steady rumble of electric guitar and the sharp thump of drums could be heard down Burnside Street and throughout the North Park Blocks on Aug. ...
30 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Medicaid would reimburse CCOs for services that reduce barriers to housing, 'the most important social determinant of health' Late last year, OnTrack, an addiction treatment and recovery agency based in Medford, considered buying a 15-unit apart ...
18 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Rental assistance is a proven tool for ending and preventing homelessness. Too bad Portland’s housing market isn’t cooperating. Julius Brown and his fiancée, Denise William, thought they had found the perfect home after moving into a two-bedroom apartment ...
4 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
Oregon's progressive U.S. senator is separating himself from the pack in the fight against global warming, housing crisis, political corruption U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has made a big splash in his eight years in the Senate. One of the Senate’s most pr ...
3 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
How we deal with health care is too political, says National Health Care for the Homeless Council's keynote speaker Depending on where a person lives, or if he or she is white, black or another race or ethnicity, or if they are impoverished – their h ...
24 May 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe