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  1. Housing issues promise to dominate legislative session

    Gov. Tina Kotek laid the groundwork when she declared homelessness a state of emergency, but advocates and homeless Oregonians remain skeptical of lawmakers as legislative session starts Norman Lee LeDuff lives less than a mile from the Oregon State Capit ...

    1 Feb 2023 - Tom Henderson

  2. Medford City Council candidate stirs up anti-poor politics with environmentalism

    As fire danger escalates in Southern Oregon, Medford City Council candidate Matt Roberts seeks to criminalize those living on the frontlines of climate change On a sweltering October day in Medford, Oregon, five Medford police officers approached a tent n ...

    19 Oct 2022 - Sam Becker

  3. To confront the housing crisis, it is time to think big

    DIRECTOR’S DESK | The homeless numbers are big. The geographic scope of the crisis is big. And the investment required of us is big. Our vision must be, too. How might we envision a future where there is housing for everyone in this region? The new report ...

    23 Aug 2019 - Kaia Sand

  4. Urgent: Climate-driven migration demands local planning now

    COMMENTARY | Portland is incapable of handling today’s homeless crisis; just imagine the future​ Cities, counties and states need a public planning process, including stakeholders, to mitigate the coming mass migration crisis. This is a challenge of chara ...

    9 Aug 2019 - Dan Newth

  5. The human face of the Portland housing emergency

    DIRECTOR’S DESK | To whom it may concern... Rich taped a valentine to the brick wall in the vendor office. He made it during a recent vendor office valentine-making party and addressed it this way: “To Whom it May Concern.” He was grinning when he showed ...

    22 Feb 2019 - Kaia Sand

  6. Director's Desk: Right 2 Dream Too too valuable to lose

    Without the camp, hundreds of people on the streets will be isolated Right 2 Dream Too, the 5-year-old rest stop that serves more than 100 people experiencing homelessness, offers critical services in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown. Some people don’t want ...

    23 Feb 2017 - Israel Bayer

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