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
Camp Pioneer emerges, to be swept tomorrow... About 10 people experiencing homelessness set up a small tent community on a tiny triangle of land on North Wheeler Avenue just west of Dixon Street. The camp has been in existence for two-weeks. This afternoo ...
30 Aug 2010 - Street Roots
Proposals sought on $1 million for homeless programs By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Portland Housing Bureau plans to solicit proposals from social-service agencies on Aug. 26 on how to spend a special appropriation of $1 million for homeless and ho ...
30 Aug 2010 - Street Roots
Parks bond stall raises questions for housing levy By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer On April 14, City Commissioner Nick Fish and the Parks Bureau’s director, Zari Santner, announced that a $200 million bond measure for capital improvements to Portland’s ...
10 May 2010 - Street Roots
Affordable housing question for candidates... From the April 16, edition of Street Roots Question two: The 30 percent set aside from Urban Renewal Areas for affordable housing was created four years ago, but it is not guaranteed. What will you do to regul ...
27 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
PDC unloads affordable housing obligation in North Macadam The League of Women Voters is calling on the city to stand behind its agreement to build affordable housing in the North Macadam Urban Renewal Area after an preliminary agreement indicates the Por ...
23 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
Camping lawsuit talks stall as new rules hang in the balance New guidelines for homeless campsites could land before council in the coming weeks By Amanda Waldroupe Contributing Writer As of late January, the settlement negotiations to a year-old class-ac ...
5 Feb 2010 - Street Roots