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  1. How tenants around Portland fight back against landlords

    With help from mutual aid group Don’t Evict PDX, tenants receive rental assistance funds, guidance on eviction notices and support for tenant advocacy and organizing In early December, a mutual aid request to help a tenant who needed $4,980 by Dec. 6 to a ...

    4 Jan 2023 - Christine Menges

  2. New Avenues for Youth workers want a union

    Nonprofit workers assisting homeless youth await recognition from management Workers at New Avenues for Youth, a social services nonprofit for homeless youth, notified organization leadership they want a union. Despite requesting voluntary recognition fro ...

    28 Dec 2022 - Aurora Biggers

  3. Housing for frontline social service workers addressing the homelessness crisis

    The Atomic Orchard Experiment aims to honor what people do as workers and as Portlanders Jeff Woodward, a boots-on-the-ground frontline worker with the Mental Health and Addiction Association of Oregon, spends his days bringing harm reduction supplies out ...

    21 Dec 2022 - Ellen Clarke

  4. Dan Ryan yet to respond to June call for new tenant protections

    An attorney tasked with enforcing similar protections tells Street Roots why protections work and how they serve to level an uneven playing field What would Portland renters do if their landlord shut off the water and refused to turn it back on? While dir ...

    14 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel

  5. Eviction court favors landlords

    Oregon is in a housing crisis. Experts say eviction court is part of the problem. What’s surprising about watching eviction court proceedings is how utterly bureaucratic they are. People on the receiving end of eviction are devastated. They are scrambling ...

    7 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel

  6. New, innovative project offers lifeline to youths after foster care

    Ascending Flow uses music and mentorship to support youth aging out of Oregon’s foster care system Outside a building bathed in colorful graffiti along Southeast 122nd Avenue in Portland’s Mill Park neighborhood, several young men sporting tattoos, high t ...

    7 Dec 2022 - Libby Dowsett

  7. Senior policy advisor for Commissioner Dan Ryan resigns in response to plan for mass camps

    A resignation letter said the recently passed plan to ban unsanctioned encampments and construct mass camps will lead to 'irreparable trauma and unnecessary deaths' In another chapter of the city of Portland’s protracted struggle to address home ...

    2 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo

  8. Sen. Wyden says housing is a human right

    Sen. Wyden's DASH Act languishes in committee, despite being among most comprehensive current proposals to address homelessness If a person is battling hunger, the logical solution is to provide food. Newly re-elected Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR, applies th ...

    23 Nov 2022 - Piper McDaniel

  9. The Driftwood Castle at Kelley Point Park

    A homeless Portlander, dubbed ‘the Driftwood Wizard,’ began building a driftwood shelter in late summer. He left with nary a trace, an impermanent structure and indelible impression in his wake. Much like its architect, Driftwood Castle will disappear soo ...

    23 Nov 2022 - Aurora Biggers

  10. Despite classifying an increasing number of fires as ‘homeless related,’ Portland Fire and Rescue can’t determine what’s causing majority of fires

    It’s unclear how many fires classified as ‘homeless related’ actually involve homeless Portlanders Darrell Pattum wasn’t there when an arsonist burned down his camp in 2019, but his neighbors said a man walked out of a nearby business and threatened them ...

    9 Nov 2022 - Aurora Biggers and Henry Brannan

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