Homeless Portlanders, service providers prepare for Nov. 13 sleeping ban enforcement while the mayor's office goes quiet Less than two weeks before the city is set to enforce its wide-reaching public sleeping ban Nov. 13 — days after nighttime temper ...
8 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
The program ended in August 2022, but tenants are still in the throes of a rental emergency The pandemic-era Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program, or OERAP, prevented nearly 70,000 renters from being evicted, according to the state, yet tenants, law ...
9 Aug 2023 - Aurora Biggers
Black & Beyond the Binary Collective event raises funds and awareness for ongoing housing instability crisis Revered Portland drag queen Marla Darling pretended everything was okay. She wasn’t telling her coworkers, but she was living in a garage. Dar ...
26 Jul 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Vague communication from city causes concern among homeless Portlanders and service providers Portland’s ‘daytime camping ban’ went into effect July 7, but the city has not communicated a rollout timeline, a map of allowed sleeping spots or when exactly P ...
12 Jul 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
In a city where homeless people are already much more likely to face arrest than housed people, officials have a ‘new’ proposal: warn, fine and arrest homeless Portlanders Update: Portland City Council passed the ordinance discussed in this story June 7. ...
6 Jun 2023 - K. Rambo
A bill to give homeless people the right to be left alone fails to move through OR House Editor's note: This is an updated version of a story originally published in the April 26 print edition of Street Roots. O vid Neal III was 6-foot-4 with chisele ...
3 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
Tenant legal representation is on the ballot in May Voters can weigh in on a watershed moment in the county’s housing crisis with county Measure 26-238. If passed, the measure would levy a capital gains tax to fund legal representation for tenants in all ...
26 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
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