A developer plans to demolish the Flanders House and replace it with market rate apartments A newly formed tenants’ collective is speaking out against the possible demolition of an 1890s Alphabet District house that some of the neighborhood’s lower income ...
21 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
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 discord is 'quite an ordeal' for people living outside, including those with PTSD who are troubled by loud noises Loud noises from flashbangs, the roaring of helicopters, and other tactics police are using to control the crowds of demonstrat ...
6 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
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
An extension of Oregon’s evictions moratorium and a freeze on rent increases are floated at a Community Alliance of Tenants town hall Jonathan was a surgeon and epidemiologist before he fell prey to a series of spinal injuries and cardiac events. Now he a ...
7 Apr 2020 - Tom Henderson
For Portland residents who live in public spaces, closures make life particularly challenging — and for some, terrifying Surviving on Portland’s streets was already a daily struggle before the coronavirus pandemic reached Oregon. Now, Gov. Kate Brown’s “ ...
4 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
‘We can find people like nobody’s business,’ says the founder of the nonprofit, which has celebrated more than 300 reunions across the United States “Everyone is someone’s somebody.” That’s the motto of Miracle Messages, a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit ...
30 Mar 2020 - Helen Hill
Anxiety runs high among people on the streets after a stay-home order is issued in the wake of coronavirus Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Portland’s houseless communities are grappling with uncertainty and misinformation on many fronts. Street Roots asked ...
24 Mar 2020 - Emily Green
People living on Portland streets struggle to find ways to earn money amid COVID-19 measures Kyle Hair, who spends his nights sleeping in downtown doorways, was earning about $100 a week redeeming recyclable bottles and cans before the COVID-19 social dis ...
21 Mar 2020 - Emily Green