The Oregon Law Center has taken up the case of a group of homeless people who say they have been wronged by the Oregon Department of Transportation when it cleared out their encampment in Southeast Portland. The suit maintains that the law requires ODOT t ...
18 Dec 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Letter to OTCTCA pledges short term at Hoyt site Mayor Charlie Hales has sent a letter to the The Old Town Chinatown Community Association outlining his intentions with the future of Right 2 Dream Too, after proposing in a media blitz a 15-month deal for ...
11 Dec 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Across Oregon, low-income families are adjusting to a little less, thanks to the national reduction in the food stamp program that went into effect Nov. 1. We haven’t seen the last of it. Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are currently threshing out two plans ...
18 Nov 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Technically speaking, he was a transient white male, age 59, declared dead from natural causes at 9:18 p.m., Oct. 7, in East Portland. To his friends, he was Alvin Smith. He lived with about 50 other people at the controversial camp along Johnson Creek at ...
22 Oct 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Street Roots talks with Oregon’s senior senator about the government’s surveillance program on its own citizens. Like you, I’m angry. Angry at being spied upon by my own government, and then lied to about it. Not exactly virgin territory for a nation with ...
12 Sep 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Across the nation, suburbs now surpass cities and rural areas in the number of people living in poverty If you want to know what homelessness looks like in the 21st century, you have to look beyond the familiar hoods and urban alleys. You have to head out ...
5 Jul 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Right 2 Dream Too, the homeless way station at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Burnside, will square off with city attorneys next week for perhaps the final round in their 20-month standoff. On July 11, a motion to dismiss by the city will be considered i ...
1 Jul 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
What people are saying around Portland about suburban poverty “We are seeing more and more calls coming to City Hall. Our staff get three to five phone calls a week from people seeking help of various kinds. Prior to the recession we did not get any calls ...
26 Jun 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
A conversation about the housing challenges and opportunities facing Oregon farmworkers Oregon employs between 90,000 and 150,000 farmworkers, not including their families. The precise numbers are difficult to establish year by year, because of the nature ...
5 Jun 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
A conversation with Portland’s Margaret Van Vliet on her charge to overhaul the state’s housing agency By Joanne Zuhl, Staff writer Oregon’s Housing and Community Services department is arguably not the most glamorous in state government. But it’s definit ...
20 May 2013 - Joanne Zuhl