Oregon rental aid program flounders while clock on eviction protections for renters runs down, putting thousands at risk of eviction When Rae Bloodgood applied for the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program (OERAP) in June, she knew she wasn’t going t ...
11 Aug 2021 - Aurora Biggers
Despite the often life-altering consequences of eviction proceedings, tenants secured legal representation in just 3% of the nearly 6000 eviction cases filed in Multnomah County in 2019. Attorneys say the COVID-19 pandemic has only made the issue more sev ...
28 Jul 2021 - Chris May
The disparity between wages and rent is growing, especially in Portland Despite a global pandemic that stalled the economy and resulted in widespread unemployment, the average wage needed to afford rent in Oregon rose again in 2020, according to the Natio ...
21 Jul 2021 - K. Rambo
And the government must help, writes the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless Donald Whitehead is executive director of National Coalition for the Homeless. “This is no time … to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” — Dr. M ...
21 Jul 2021 - Donald Whitehead
OPINION | Unhoused people deserve to know how the new ordinance on camp sweeps will be applied. P ortland City Council last week unanimously passed an ordinance on homelessness put forward by Commissioner Dan Ryan. While the ordinance instructs the city t ...
7 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
Tenants who can't pay when the eviction moratorium ends can apply for assistance, but it likely won't arrive soon enough June 22 update: The Senate on Tuesday repassed Senate Bill 278. The bill, which now heads to Gov. Kate Brown's desk, w ...
16 Jun 2021 - Tom Henderson
Under an overpass near Bertha Boulevard is a small village of youths, who are grateful for the help they're receiving from their neighbors S outhwest Bertha Boulevard is busy. It zips through the center of Southwest Portland, connecting major streets ...
9 Jun 2021 - Emma Nathanson
Service providers say the new guidelines bring uncertainty as the city becomes more aggressive with sweeps of houseless camps P ortland city leaders adopted a code change in April intended to get houseless people off streets and into shelters. But with ca ...
9 Jun 2021 - Christen McCurdy
OPINION | Leo Rhodes reminds us that people’s needs vary: ‘You might not need it, but somebody else will’ “ I think it’s great,” Leo Rhodes told me of the range of camp villages the city and county governments are floating for Portland. “What I like about ...
9 Jun 2021 - Kaia Sand
The way we count the number of people experiencing homeless in the U.S. — and the way that data is reported — skews the scope of the problem On the night of March 25, national news carried dramatic scenes of police clearing an encampment of about 200 peop ...
2 Jun 2021 - Jake Maher