Hit hard during the recession, the small city is now in the midst of an economic boom. Home construction is soaring – but so are rents. And low-income housing remains elusive. PRINEVILLE, Ore. – On the eastern edge of Prineville is a 76-acre piece of land ...
27 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Tom Kemper harnessed knowledge in law, finance and development to build hundreds of affordable-housing units If you ask anyone in Central Oregon who has been the most productive developer of affordable-housing units in the region, you will get the same na ...
20 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
A shortage of housing for middle-class workers leaves employers and professionals in a bind BEND, Ore. – Nearly seven years ago, Preston Callicott, the CEO of Bend-based software company Five Talent Software, offered a job to a software developer. The man ...
13 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
The region is now beset with a housing shortage and an increase in homelessness. How will it respond as it continues to grow? BEND, Ore. – Sarah Kelley is exponentially busier than she was four years ago. Kelley is the executive director of Thrive Centra ...
13 Apr 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
The Florida judge talks about a restorative justice system that doesn’t criminalize mental illness In 1993, Aaron Wynn suffered a psychotic episode while he was in a grocery store in Broward County, Fla. It was a residual effect from the head trauma he su ...
23 Feb 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Affordable housing advocates hope a new online program can help low-income renters find apartments they qualify for Since the December soft launch of a website designed to make it easier for renters to find and qualify for housing they can afford, approxi ...
16 Feb 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Sometimes welcoming, other times hostile, Portland neighborhood associations want to be included in plans for nearby homeless programs On Jan. 25, when Multnomah County commissioners approved a shelter for 100 to 120 homeless people in Southeast Portland, ...
2 Feb 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Outcomes have improved since Worksystems, a job training program, began investing in participants' housing A program that provides job-training skills to low-income Portlanders has shown that participants who are given rent assistance while in the pr ...
5 Jan 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
The Oregon county is piloting a program to give participants in jail and on probation drugs to stay clean and avoid painful withdrawal symptoms Justin Davenport, Jake Moses and Brandin Riehle are best friends, the closest friends each of them has had in t ...
5 Jan 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Portland’s pedestrian use zones ‘deeply troubling,’ legal director says The question of how people experiencing homelessness occupy public spaces has become a seasonal argument these days. As with years past, the question is again thrust into the public s ...
22 Dec 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe