Street Services Coordination Center offering fewer shelter referrals as sweeps increase Crystal Kelly has lived in a tent near a bus station in Old Town for months. Homeless for a few years now, she’s been trying, as she puts it, “to get clean, to stay ou ...
20 Jul 2022 - Tyler Walicek and K. Rambo
Unhoused Portlanders swept using the tactic say it undermines safety, stability and human dignity What’s the difference between moving with one hour’s notice and 72 hours’ notice? “A lot,” DJ Husar, Street Roots vendor, said. The city swept Husar, an unho ...
6 Jul 2022 - K. Rambo
In the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, residents gathered at a public forum last June to voice their concerns about the city’s growing population of homeless individuals. Over the last decade, rent grew twice as fast in Portland as the rest of the ...
29 Jun 2022 - Melissa Lewis
The city extends the legal window for sweeps by posting and reposting encampments, which can cause distress and logistical issues for unhoused Portlanders Imagine being told you have between three and 10 days to move, with no way of knowing if the time wi ...
22 Jun 2022 - K. Rambo
The housing shortage plays a role, but building more homes won't fix the affordability crisis. If someone lives in Oregon, there’s a low probability their rent is considered affordable. Half of all Oregon renters spend more than 30% of their income o ...
1 Jun 2022 - Piper McDaniel
City officials did not say if background checks are being considered Neighborhood associations expanded a demand for residents of Safe Rest Villages near schools to undergo criminal background checks in a May 16 email to Mayor Ted Wheeler and city commiss ...
25 May 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Amid tight housing market, investors snap up homes in record numbers. Portland renters and prospective non-investment homebuyers are feeling the impact. Like most major metropolitan areas in the United States, the Portland metro is experiencing inflation ...
13 Apr 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
There are only 1,600 shelter beds in Multnomah county for more than 4,000 people experiencing homelessness Despite increasing capacity since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Multnomah County’s supply of publicly-supported shelter beds for people ex ...
30 Mar 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Close ties raise questions about fairness in the city’s effort to alleviate homelessness After weeks of failed attempts to get homeless Portlanders cleared from several streets downtown near Northwest Third Avenue to make way for a pending event, Daniel K ...
30 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Nearly 40% of all Oregonians over 65 say they are at risk of losing their homes Nancie Carlson got a notice to vacate her apartment in Klamath Falls, where she lived for the past 10 years, in December. When she found out, she was shocked. She didn’t sleep ...
16 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel