Portland’s primary sweep contractor dogged by lawsuits, concerns, complaints At the Ground Score Association warehouse in Portland’s Old Town on March 30, community members met to discuss city government actions in their neighborhoods — specifically sweep ...
15 May 2024 - Terah Bennett
Portland City Council passes amended law seeking to jail and fine homeless Portlanders after court injunction halted 2023 version Mayor Ted Wheeler and the city of Portland are again pursuing fining and jailing homeless Portlanders for behavior resulting ...
15 May 2024 - K. Rambo
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers Grants Pass v. Johnson, addressing homelessness requires more work, regardless of outcome Cassy Leach woke up early on April 22, the day the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson across the c ...
8 May 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Nonprofit managing city shelter sites spent thousands of dollars and countless hours garnering officials’ favor without reporting lobbying, Portland City Auditor finds The Portland City Auditor determined California-based homelessness nonprofit Urban Alch ...
1 May 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
The Oregon town’s homeless residents say it is impossible to avoid being punished for having no place to live Laura Gutowski lives just down the street from the Grants Pass home she resided in for 25 years. Her son used to play baseball in Morrison Centen ...
3 Apr 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
2023 Point in Time count reveals 4,857 unsheltered women across Oregon Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of intimate partner violence. Alana’s friends warned her when she moved from Salem to Portland with her boyfriend. The couple had b ...
6 Mar 2024 - Ellen Clarke
A new report finds 22,000 homeless children in Oregon, Black and Native communities overrepresented A new statewide report shows homelessness continues to rise across Oregon, disproportionately affecting communities of color and rural communities and le ...
14 Feb 2024 - Melanie Henshaw
The city's private contractor, Rapid Response Bio Clean stores confiscated items in a warehouse for retrieval after sweeps, but homeless Portlanders say retrieval is next to impossible Although it’s a chilly 45 degrees out, Garrett Troupe and Mackenz ...
17 Jan 2024 - Terah Bennett
The Supreme Court will review a lower court decision barring cities’ criminalization of homelessness In a decision expected to have far-reaching consequences for homelessness policy in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Jan.12 to review a lo ...
12 Jan 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Part 3: Local outreach workers see improvements, but say lack of a clear process disrupts care and trust at Urban Alchemy-run villages Two local outreach workers sat in a van parked outside Southeast Portland's Reedway Safe Rest Village, or SRV, on a ...
10 Jan 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden