Few City Hall pairings have been as joined at the hip as Commissioner Nick Fish and the Portland Housing Bureau. In his tenure on the City Council, Fish has been the architect of the city’s current housing and homeless operations, a defender of the social ...
4 Jun 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Safety net services for Portland’s poor and homeless faced down another season of funding cuts and emerge virtually intact in Mayor Charlie Hale’s budget, released this morning in City Hall. While federal cuts are still going to hit the city’s housing and ...
30 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Nick Fish delivers the state of housing, a Portland story By Nick Fish, Contributing Columnist This week I presented my fourth housing budget to the City Council. It is a good time to reflect on the progress we have made together, the challenges we face, ...
24 Apr 2012 - Street Roots
Parks bureau to create new rangers to patrol public parks BY JAKE THOMAS, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Portland Parks and Recreation’s contract for downtown security services is coming up for renewal. And with the season’s change is in the air. Currently, a subsid ...
12 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
Portland gets funding for people living with HIV/AIDS on the skids Back in March Street Roots reported on people experiencing homelessness with HIV/AIDS with the story Positive in poverty. In 2010, we also reported on the HIV/AIDS community losing funding ...
27 Sep 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
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