Many people experiencing homelessness are older than 55 and have underlying illnesses At a time when health care providers are accelerating mass vaccinations to get the COVID-19 vaccines into as many arms as possible, others are concerned that approach wo ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
Photographer B Okabe captured this unusual moment in history as seen by those who live and work in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood Houseless people and members of other disenfranchised communities have called Old Town home throughout Portland’s ...
18 Nov 2020 - B Okabe
Blanchet House in Old Town needs donations of water bottles to distribute to people experiencing homelessness as temperatures near 100 degrees over the next two days For the first time in the 130 days since Multnomah County commissioners declared a state ...
25 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Check back for updates on the status of these important pieces of legislation The Oregon Legislature adjourned its special session late Friday, June 26. Bills specifically addressing homelessness — an issue Speaker of the House Tina Kotek wanted to decla ...
26 Jun 2020 - Tom Henderson
Vulnerable Oregonians take center stage during Legislature's emergency session, likely to extend into next week He went to the hospital in Corvallis with pneumonia, but the physician who saw him thought the 64-year-old quadriplegic man with developme ...
26 Jun 2020 - Tom Henderson
The governor’s decision not to call a special session leaves housing policy recommendations in the balance Morgan Florea doesn’t have to worry for three months about being evicted from her Portland apartment because she can’t pay the rent. Oregon Gov. Kat ...
7 Apr 2020 - Tom Henderson
An extension of Oregon’s evictions moratorium and a freeze on rent increases are floated at a Community Alliance of Tenants town hall Jonathan was a surgeon and epidemiologist before he fell prey to a series of spinal injuries and cardiac events. Now he a ...
7 Apr 2020 - Tom Henderson
For Portland residents who live in public spaces, closures make life particularly challenging — and for some, terrifying Surviving on Portland’s streets was already a daily struggle before the coronavirus pandemic reached Oregon. Now, Gov. Kate Brown’s “ ...
4 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
People living on Portland streets struggle to find ways to earn money amid COVID-19 measures Kyle Hair, who spends his nights sleeping in downtown doorways, was earning about $100 a week redeeming recyclable bottles and cans before the COVID-19 social dis ...
21 Mar 2020 - Emily Green