City elections an opportunity for renewed push on housing SR editorial from the August 5th edition. Announcements and rumors about the up and coming Portland election in 2012 have the city buzzing. With the announcement that Mayor Sam Adams, an establishe ...
11 Aug 2011 - Street Roots
Review of housing set aside reveals positive results By John Miller, Contributing Writer As a long time advocate for affordable homes here in Portland I was very happy to discover that the city has exceeded its ‘TIF Set Aside” spending on affordable housi ...
27 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
Fish rolls out fair housing plan, answers allegations of going soft on landlords By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Housing Commissioner Nick Fish rolled out his fair housing action plan this morning in reaction to an audit earlier this year that found consider ...
10 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Vendor Leo Rhodes helps open the Bud Clark Commons [caption id="attachment_5301" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Commissioner Nick Fish, former Mayor Bud Clark and Executive Director of TPI Doreen Binder"] [/ ...
2 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Breaking News: Nick Fish releases names of fair housing test offenders By Joanne Zuhl Portland Housing Commissioner Nick Fish’s office has released the locations cited in a recent fair housing audit as testing positive for racial housing discrimination. T ...
18 May 2011 - Street Roots
Senate Republicans send letter to Attorney General, Avakian on Fair Housing Senate Republicans in Oregon are calling for strict enforcement of Fair Housing Laws following evidence of racial discrimination in renting practices revealed by an audit put toge ...
12 May 2011 - Street Roots
Fish pledges enforcement, education against housing discrimination By Joanne Zuhl Staff Writer An audit of the city’s fair housing practices completed nearly four months ago has recently set tongues wagging over what the city is going to do with the high ...
12 May 2011 - Street Roots
Street Roots joins housing group on a two-day peer learning trip to Seattle Street Roots is joining Commissioner Nick Fish later today (by bus due to a mudslide along the Amtrak line) — along with an array of city and county representatives, the Portland ...
2 Mar 2011 - Street Roots
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times at the Portland Housing Bureau The past two years at the Portland Housing Bureau have seen some enormous changes, ranging from the merger of the Bureau and Housing and Community Development and portions ...
24 Feb 2011 - Street Roots
City pumps $1 million into housing bottleneck By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Portland Housing Bureau announced this month how it plans to spend a $1 million special allocation to address the rise in homelessness in Portland. The money is being used ...
5 Nov 2010 - Street Roots