The arrival of COVID-19, fentanyl and rising housing costs create major challenges in every US state The Oregon legislature convened for a short, five-week session starting Feb. 5, and if the weeks leading up to it are any indication, drugs are on the tab ...
7 Feb 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Among large landlords, data shows at least 35% of Landlord Compensation Fund money went out of state, but the state's tracking system obscures exactly how much In March 2020, at least 676 Oregon households faced the prospect of losing their homes. Ea ...
19 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Amid inflation and high rent costs, Senate Bill 611 seeks to strengthen rent control, tenants rights President Lyndon Johnson said, "Education is the only valid passport from poverty," but 58 years later, Andrea Haverkamp said a lot of highly ed ...
12 Apr 2023 - Tom Henderson
Despite the often life-altering consequences of eviction proceedings, tenants secured legal representation in just 3% of the nearly 6000 eviction cases filed in Multnomah County in 2019. Attorneys say the COVID-19 pandemic has only made the issue more sev ...
28 Jul 2021 - Chris May
Under the bipartisan legislation, a nonprofit would verify that a person was experiencing homelessness, and the state would waive the fee to obtain photo identification P hoto identification is required for everything from opening a bank account to cashin ...
31 Mar 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
The Aloha representative, who brings lived experience with poverty to her leadership role on a housing committee, speaks for young people who demand action on the housing and climate crises they’ve inherited W hen Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, 7 ...
3 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson
Progress on the governor’s emissions targets is stymied by lobbyists and construction loopholes T he homebuilding industry, through its outsized influence in Salem, may prevent the state from meeting important greenhouse gas reduction goals. According to ...
11 Nov 2020 - Chris May
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