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  1. Facing a new opportunity for affordable housing

    Those who envision an Oregon where every person has opportunity that comes with a safe, decent, affordable home are fortunate to live in 2015. The moment is pregnant with opportunity. Every day, more and more conversations are popping up about homelessnes ...

    18 Feb 2015 - Matt Kinshella

  2. Public safety that makes sense, costs less, rebuilds lives

    Oregon faced a public safety crisis in 2013: the state’s prison population had grown at a rapid rate between 2012 and 2013. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, our prison population grew by 3.5 percent – the fifth highest rate in the country an ...

    3 Feb 2015 - Shannon Wight

  3. Governor’s budget promising first step in affordable housing

    One hundred million dollars: It’s an impressive number. Indeed, Gov. John Kitzhaber’s proposed budget is in some ways a milestone of public commitment to funding affordable housing for the state’s impoverished families. For the first time, the state is co ...

    6 Dec 2014 - SR editorial board

  4. Drivers’ card debate revs up for fall ballot

    Mayra Martinez is never certain that she’ll get to class on time, if at all. Martinez, a 20-year-old Portland State University student, lives on a rural farm near Beaverton with her family, five miles from a TriMet bus stop. Uncomfortable biking or walkin ...

    22 Aug 2014 - Alex Zielinski

  5. Add it up: Health Share looks at ways to merge health care and affordable housing

    There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...

    30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe

  6. Lawmakers have opportunity to flatline prison growth

    By David Rogers, Contributing Columnist On Nov. 30, Gov. John Kitzhaber released his proposed budget for 2013-15. The budget included no money for prison expansion — despite the fact that the state projects it will need more than 2,000 new prison beds at ...

    23 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff

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