Trump's budget cuts threaten to unravel Portland's success housing veterans After living his car, homeless, for a little over a year, Daniel Kallunki moved into a one-bedroom apartment near Troutdale last November, less than a month after receiv ...
26 May 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
This flawed policy would perpetuate a cycle of madness that's been repeated for decades People tell me all the time, Israel — all my friends, even the liberal ones are tired of it. The homeless. The trash. Something has to be done to clear these camp ...
19 May 2017 - Israel Bayer
We can do something powerful, but we need to focus on solutions We’ve lost the general public’s support and political will on homelessness. I’ve been hearing these sentiments a lot lately in political circles. That’s nonsense. It’s true that many people ...
4 May 2017 - Israel Bayer
How it happens, who it harms, and how we can work toward a solution Insufficient income taxes on the rich, cash-starved local governments and opportunistic developers constitute the ingredients for a particularly bitter pill for low-income people: higher ...
27 Apr 2017 - Jared Paben
We can get ahead of the curve on homelessness Young people grow up understanding that having people experiencing homelessness in their city is simply a fact of life. It’s a sad reality. The truth is mass homelessness hasn’t always existed in American citi ...
13 Apr 2017 - Israel Bayer
The new complex is met with high demand, but some housing advocates question the fairness of the application process It is 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, and close to two dozen people wait outside the doors of Catholic Charities’ main Portland office on t ...
9 Feb 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
The first Native American to represent Portland in the state Legislature brings an eye on affordable housing, the Superfund clean-up and our problematic foster care system Portland has often been described as a “white city.” Just this summer, a lengthy ar ...
8 Sep 2016 - Stephen Quirke
Oregon's progressive U.S. senator is separating himself from the pack in the fight against global warming, housing crisis, political corruption U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has made a big splash in his eight years in the Senate. One of the Senate’s most pr ...
3 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
'Speculation Nation' screens in Portland At some point on the train trip between Madrid and Pamplona, out in the countryside, Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat spotted something strange in the distance. It looked like a large abandoned city, but the ...
2 Aug 2016 - Jared Paben
Cities in Oregon and on the West Coast are taking measures to boost affordable housing, fight homelessness Portland is experiencing a dire shortage of affordable housing, but not one that is unique to the city. The housing crisis, as it has become known, ...
28 Apr 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe