The city’s top architects are on board. Will it matter?
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Advocates Are Making Their Strongest Pitch Yet for New Homeless Villages
The City’s Top Architects Are on Board. Will It Matter?
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A Terminal 1 Shelter Lease Would Have Been Well Under Market Rate, Thanks to City Council Resolution
If plans to place an emergency homeless shelter at the city’s surplus Terminal 1 property would have moved forward, the property would have been leased at well under what city officials have said is the going rate. According to a copy of a tentative lease agreement between the Bureau of Environmental Services (which owns the […]
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Dan Saltzman Pulled the Plug on a Terminal 1 Shelter Due to Lack of an “Experienced Shelter Operator”
It became clear on Monday afternoon, not long after Homer Williams and his colleagues had finally sent along a proposal to create a homeless shelter at Terminal 1: After months of planning, hundreds of thousands of dollars raised, and disagreements that reverberated through both the Portland City Council and the city’s social services community, the […]
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It’s Official: Terminal 1 Won’t Become a Homeless Shelter
Terminal 1 Dirk VanderHart Update, 4:12 pm: The Terminal 1 dream is dead. Less than an hour after we posted this, Housing Commissioner Dan Saltzman ended the suspense: The bid to put a homeless shelter at Terminal 1 is off. In a statement to media, Saltzman says: “Unfortunately, Harbor of Hope will not be ready […]
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Right 2 Dream Too Was Supposed to Leave Its Home By Today. It’s Sticking Around
It’s a bit ironic that today—exactly one year after City Council declared a housing emergency in Portland—was also the day when homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo) was supposed to have been bounced from its long-time home. Under an agreement the Portland Development Commission (PDC) inked two years ago with the people who […]
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Housing Officials Are Seeking Almost $450,000 to Pay For a Terminal 1 Homeless Shelter
Terminal 1: About to be Portland’s largest-ever homeless shelter? Dirk VanderHart The Portland Housing Bureau is seeking an almost $450,000 infusion into an already-record budget, in order to pay for a temporary homeless shelter for a year and a half. The $447,285 request comes as part of the city’s twice-annual budget monitoring process (known as […]
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Deaths Of Homeless People Shot Way Up in Multnomah County Last Year
Adam Wickham Eighty-eight people died while homeless in Multnomah County last year. That’s 32 more than the year before, and the total of 2013 and 2014 combined. And it’s yet another sign Portland’s homelessness crisis is taking a toll beyond the perennial focuses of messy camps or inconvenient panhandlers. The 2015 death toll comes from […]
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Hall Monitor: R2DToo, Rushed
The Essential Homeless Rest Area Is Blocked from Moving. Is There a Quick Fix?
The homeless rest area is blocked from moving. Is there a quick fix?
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Right 2 Dream Too Will Push to Change the Zoning Code That’s Blocking Its Move
Behind the “wall of doors” surrounding Right 2 Dream Too. Denis C. Theriault Homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too—suddenly barred from moving to Portland’s Central Eastside—is trying to hash out a deal with the city to remain at its Chinatown home while Portland officials pursue zoning code tweaks that would allow it to relocate […]
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Portland’s Homeless Shelters Might Soon Be Larger Than Ever Before
Under New Proposed Rules, They Could Also Be Closer Together
Under new proposed rules, they could also be closer together.
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Hall Monitor: New Sheriff, Old Outlook
Does Mike Reese’s Stance on Camping Seem Familiar? It Should.
Does Mike Reese’s stance on camping seem familiar? It should.
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Central Eastside Business Owners Have Prevailed in Fight Against Right 2 Dream Too
A rendering of what the new R2DToo site might have looked like. The rationale for placing Right 2 Dream Too on a spot of industrial land on the Central Eastside always seemed a bit too convenient. In a “zoning confirmation letter” from the city’s Bureau of Development Services, officials offered up baroque arguments that a […]