Amid tight housing market, investors snap up homes in record numbers. Portland renters and prospective non-investment homebuyers are feeling the impact. Like most major metropolitan areas in the United States, the Portland metro is experiencing inflation ...
13 Apr 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Close ties raise questions about fairness in the city’s effort to alleviate homelessness After weeks of failed attempts to get homeless Portlanders cleared from several streets downtown near Northwest Third Avenue to make way for a pending event, Daniel K ...
30 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Under emergency authorization from Portland mayor, Dan Ryan announces new SRV site locations W hen Portland Commissioner Dan Ryan introduced the Safe Rest Village initiative last year, he planned to have six new tiny home-style homeless shelter villages o ...
9 Mar 2022 - Taylor Griggs
Street Roots spoke to more than 12 unhoused Portlanders living along roads and freeways included in Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Feb. 4 emergency order banning encampments in high-traffic corridors. Of the few who had heard of the order, none were clear on if they ...
23 Feb 2022 - Henry Brannan
Portland city government has no plans to relax sweep criteria in safer areas following emergency order Mayor Ted Wheeler announced an emergency order prohibiting homeless encampments along an identified list of dangerous roadways on Feb. 4, drawing immedi ...
23 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
A Jan. 31 memo penned by mayoral aide Sam Adams proposed, among other things, to build large-scale homeless encampments in Portland staffed by Oregon National Guard and others. The full memo, first reported by Willamette Week, is below in PDF format. Jan. ...
11 Feb 2022 - Street Roots
Rising unemployment, financial instability and pandemic uncertainty prompt uptick in renter organizing P andemic woes and landlord harassment sparked a surge in tenant unions. Early in the third year of the pandemic, as the omicron variant unravels the sm ...
2 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Proposed Safe Rest Village sites vary in distance and availability to key resources for homeless communities. Here's what we found: Homeless Portlanders, advocates and politicians have a range of thoughts about the pros and cons of sanctioned encampm ...
18 Jan 2022 - Taylor Griggs
Recent investments in congregate shelters raise questions about priorities, efficacy According to a recently announced spending plan to address homelessness jointly funded by the city of Portland and Multnomah County, local sheltering options will substan ...
24 Nov 2021 - Taylor Griggs
Advocates and officials agree: investment required beyond temporary shelter Sandra Fairbank has been unhoused for seven years, becoming homeless after leaving an abusive marriage. Since then, she has moved from camp to camp in different parts of the city ...
10 Nov 2021 - Taylor Griggs