Vendor Leo Rhodes helps open the Bud Clark Commons [caption id="attachment_5301" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Commissioner Nick Fish, former Mayor Bud Clark and Executive Director of TPI Doreen Binder"] [/ ...
2 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Breaking News: Nick Fish releases names of fair housing test offenders By Joanne Zuhl Portland Housing Commissioner Nick Fish’s office has released the locations cited in a recent fair housing audit as testing positive for racial housing discrimination. T ...
18 May 2011 - Street Roots
Senate Republicans send letter to Attorney General, Avakian on Fair Housing Senate Republicans in Oregon are calling for strict enforcement of Fair Housing Laws following evidence of racial discrimination in renting practices revealed by an audit put toge ...
12 May 2011 - Street Roots
Fish pledges enforcement, education against housing discrimination By Joanne Zuhl Staff Writer An audit of the city’s fair housing practices completed nearly four months ago has recently set tongues wagging over what the city is going to do with the high ...
12 May 2011 - Street Roots
Street Roots joins housing group on a two-day peer learning trip to Seattle Street Roots is joining Commissioner Nick Fish later today (by bus due to a mudslide along the Amtrak line) — along with an array of city and county representatives, the Portland ...
2 Mar 2011 - Street Roots
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times at the Portland Housing Bureau The past two years at the Portland Housing Bureau have seen some enormous changes, ranging from the merger of the Bureau and Housing and Community Development and portions ...
24 Feb 2011 - Street Roots
City pumps $1 million into housing bottleneck By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Portland Housing Bureau announced this month how it plans to spend a $1 million special allocation to address the rise in homelessness in Portland. The money is being used ...
5 Nov 2010 - Street Roots
Camp Pioneer emerges, to be swept tomorrow... About 10 people experiencing homelessness set up a small tent community on a tiny triangle of land on North Wheeler Avenue just west of Dixon Street. The camp has been in existence for two-weeks. This afternoo ...
30 Aug 2010 - Street Roots
Proposals sought on $1 million for homeless programs By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Portland Housing Bureau plans to solicit proposals from social-service agencies on Aug. 26 on how to spend a special appropriation of $1 million for homeless and ho ...
30 Aug 2010 - Street Roots
Parks bond stall raises questions for housing levy By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer On April 14, City Commissioner Nick Fish and the Parks Bureau’s director, Zari Santner, announced that a $200 million bond measure for capital improvements to Portland’s ...
10 May 2010 - Street Roots