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Affordable housing transforms families, lives

COMMENTARY | Voting yes on Portland's affordable-homes measure is personal for Kathleen Linden's daughter This November, I will be voting yes on Measure 26-179 – a historic affordable-housing bond that will provide thousands of Portland families ...

27 Oct 2016 - Sydney Linden
Shut out

Rental assistance is a proven tool for ending and preventing homelessness. Too bad Portland’s housing market isn’t cooperating. Julius Brown and his fiancée, Denise William, thought they had found the perfect home after moving into a two-bedroom apartment ...

4 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
The responsibility to speak up belongs to all of us who can

Colleen Sinsky reflects on the 2015 Housing Opportunity Day at the state Capitol in Salem, Oregon Most homeless people don’t care about politics. They just think that everything is "how it’s going to be.” This was my friend Mike, a grizzled veteran ...

19 Mar 2015 - Colleen Sinsky
Captain Morgan: navigating the Willamette's unconventional society within a Superfund site

Each day Sean Morgan wakes up just as the light of morning creeps into view — a habit he picked up from years of working as a concrete finisher. He turns on his stove, boils water in a teakettle and then pours it into a French press with three scoops of g ...

25 Sep 2014 - Emily Green
A reminder of the connections as necessary as housing

In this edition, Colleen Sinsky shines a light on an element of homelessness few people outside of the field truly understand. That being homeless often means being alone, in the most extreme sense under the most extreme conditions. It becomes tangible fo ...

18 Aug 2014 - SR editorial board
Interrupting Isolation

My heart breaks each time I am listed as the sole “emergency contact” above a blank “next of kin” line on an apartment application. It is sadly not uncommon for people who have been homeless to lack even that basic human need: a reliable person to call wh ...

16 Aug 2014 - Colleen Sinsky
Ending homelessness. A pipe dream or a reality?

The following is an excerpt from a speech by Nan Roman, president and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. The Alliance is a public education, advocacy, and capacity-building organization with a network of more than 10,000 nonprofit, public s ...

22 Apr 2014 - Nan Roman
When the safety net breaks, Portland's most vulnerable are left to pick up the pieces

The walls at Safety Net of Oregon, a nonprofit that once helped disabled people manage their federal benefits, are usually covered with collages and fake flowers. But now the plaster walls are bare except for a sign stating that there will be no tolerance ...

10 Apr 2014 - Jake Thomas
Judge orders immediate restraining order against Social Security to protect disability clients

U.S. Judge Marco Hernandez ruled on March 26 that the Social Security Administration (SSA) improperly handled the clients of a nonprofit organization that is shutting down amidst a federal investigation. Earlier this month, Safety Net of Oregon was served ...

26 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
Breaking: Oregon Law Center, Disability Rights Oregon file lawsuit against Social Security Administration

Disability Rights Oregon and the Oregon Law Center have filed a class action lawsuit against the Social Security Administration, alleging that its handling of a troubled nonprofit organization is illegal and imperils the financial stability of hundreds of ...

24 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas