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Director's Desk: Laws targeting the poor in America are shameful

Oregon has the chance to support access to a better life instead of draconian laws targeting the poor Legislation in Kansas this week is looking to ban those who receive government assistance from spending it on the movies, swimming pools, spas, lingerie ...

9 Apr 2015 - Israel Bayer
Director's Desk: Let's not lose our funk, Portland

Gentrification has been slowly eating away at our city for the past 20 years. Although during the past five years, with massive rental increases and the gap between the rich and the poor widening, doesn’t it feel like we are on the verge of completely los ...

2 Apr 2015 - Israel Bayer
It’s time to turn the urgency around housing into action

The Home For Everyone board recently submitted recommendations to the City of Portland and Multnomah County. Home For Everyone is a plan to bring the community together to oversee an array of complex services to deliver the best outcomes for ending indivi ...

26 Mar 2015 - Israel Bayer
Director's Desk: Homelessness series packed with many lessons

Oregonian reporter Anna Griffin talks with Israel Bayer about her special report on homelessness in Portland Anna Griffin has been around the block. After spending 10 years at the Charlotte Observer, Griffin moved west to take a job at The Oregonian. Her ...

12 Mar 2015 - Israel Bayer
Inmates need Coffee Creek's Family Preservation Program

Parenting program for mothers in the correctional facility should be expanded, not cancelled The Family Preservation Project is a parenting program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. The program is a partnership between Portland Communi ...

27 Feb 2015 - Israel Bayer
Smart, calculated decisions will solve housing crisis

The landscape of Portland is changing before our eyes. New housing and business developments, apartment buildings and condos are popping up across neighborhoods. It’s a brand new era. There’s money to be made, and lots of it. Saying all of that, we’re pr ...

20 Feb 2015 - Israel Bayer
What will it take to end homelessness?

Portland, like many cities throughout the United States, finds itself at a crossroads. How do we collectively tackle the housing crisis and begin to really put the resources needed into ending homelessness? Anna Griffin’s series on homelessness in The Ore ...

18 Feb 2015 - Israel Bayer
Vendors, readers inspired by weekly paper

How is weekly going? That’s the question we’ve been getting all month. Amazing. For readers who aren’t aware, vendors purchase the newspaper for 25 cents and then sell it for a suggested $1 in the community. When we launched weekly at the beginning of Jan ...

6 Feb 2015 - Israel Bayer
Ending homelessness starts with human rights

A common misnomer in many communities, including Portland, is that when you offer services to people experiencing homelessness and poverty, you attract more people experiencing homelessness. We call it the magnet myth. The reality is this kind of thinking ...

30 Jan 2015 - Israel Bayer
Oregonian series an opportunity to seize the moment

A lot people in the housing community, for better or worse, are worked up over Anna Griffin’s ongoing series on homelessness in The Oregonian. Get used to it. A new story will come out every Friday for the next six weeks. Wait, does this mean I’m promotin ...

23 Jan 2015 - Israel Bayer