Emails reveal safety and planning concerns — city says 1,000-foot perimeters and weapons checks planned After weeks of negotiations, Marcus Lampros rejected the city’s offer. The city of Portland wanted to rent the local steel company owner’s property for ...
8 Mar 2023 - Piper McDaniel
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
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
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
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
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
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