Dirk VanderHart A woman writes on Hazelnut Grove’s “opportunities board” By the time the state executed its long-promised sweep of a homeless encampment on N Greeley and Interstate this morning, it hardly mattered. As Multnomah County inmates cleaned up a couple tents pitched on state-owned land toward the south end of the property, the cluster […]
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Don’t Listen to the Tribune On Police and Homelessness
Adam Wickham Here’s a little secret, Portland: Nobody wants to see the homeless people who’ve shown up in increasing numbers over the last year or so. The police and city leaders don’t want to see them. Neighbors don’t want to see them. Their stoutest advocates don’t want to see them. And the vast, vast majority […]
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What’s Portland’s Housing Emergency Worth? $30 Million For Now.
Marc Jolin lays down what $30 million can buy. Mayor Charlie Hales says Portland’s in a housing emergency, but funding solutions to that crisis will mostly have to wait ’til July. A week after Hales’ abrupt announcement he’ll ask his colleagues to formally declare a state of emergency, we’ve got a pledge of millions to […]
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Mayor Charlie Hales Is Considering Putting A Homeless Shelter In This Old Army Reserve Center
Google The day before announcing a housing “state of emergency” he says will make it easier to build a new women’s homeless shelter on city property, Mayor Charlie Hales toured Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury around some likely candidates. Kafoury’s calendar, obtained by the Mercury via public records request, shows the mayor took Kafoury to […]
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Should Eastmoreland’s Saved Sequoias House Portland’s Homeless?
Protesters saved the trees. Could they give R2DToo a new home? A recent victory in the Eastmoreland neighborhood saved three giant Sequoia trees from a local developer, prompting one Portland resident to start a petition suggesting the land should now become the new site of the city’s self-run homeless camp, Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo). […]
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What You Need to Know About Mayor Charlie Hales’ New Initiative On Homelessness
You’ve been on pins and needles all afternoon, Blogtown, so here’s what we know about the new $1 million homelessness initiative Mayor Charlie Hales unveiled today (along with City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, Multnomah County Commissioner Jules Bailey, police officials and social service providers): It looks largely like he said it would: As I noted earlier, […]
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Four Paws on the Street: PAW Team Is Our Pick for Portland’s Pet Charity of the Year
There are so many non-profit pet organizations in this part of the world that it borders on ridiculous. There are boutique rescues all over Oregon, dedicated specifically to greyhounds, dachshunds, huskies, pit bulls, etc.—if a breed exists, there’s a niche for it in the Pacific Northwest’s network of charitable animal efforts. The overwhelming majority of […]
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Mayor Charlie Hales Will Unveil His Latest Homeless Outreach Idea Today
Sarah Hayes A couple days ago, a picture was ricocheting around Twitter of two people having sex in a doorway on the North Park Blocks. I’m not gonna post it. You can imagine what it looked like. It’s an unwelcome image, obviously—both because it’s not a good thing for people to be having sex in […]
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New Site for Right 2 Dream Too May Cost $254,000
Dirk VanderHart Right 2 Dream Too’s new view? Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz want to spent more than a quarter million dollars on a piece of property they’ve called the best option available for the homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too. An item on next week’s city council agenda, unveiled earlier this […]
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SE Portland Neighborhood Associations Want City Hall to Account for Itself in R2DToo Move
The lot where Portland officials hope to move Right 2 Dream Too. You can now tack on 20 of the city’s neighborhood associations to the list of people concerned about the proposed relocation of homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too. The board of SE Uplift, a powerful coalition of mainly southeast Portland neighborhoods, voted […]
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Yes, Homelessness is Growing in Portland, But Not As Fast As You Might Think
Portland police say Portland’s homelessness situation has reached a tipping point. Since May 26, they’ve been scouring the Central Eastside most days to push out the “entrenched” campers who’ve taken root there—steering them toward social services where possible, but otherwise basically telling them to find another place to live. So what’s the actual state of […]
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Central Eastside Businesses Now Say Moving R2DToo To Their Neighborhood Is Illegal
See that pretty map up there? Central Eastside businesses claim each technicolor blob will be free to host homeless camps if Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz succeed in moving homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo) across the river. Those blobs mortify these Central Eastside businesses. R2DToo fight 2.0, it seems, is […]