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The City Finally Has an Idea of How to Spend Its Housing Bond
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The City Extends Its Strongest Renter Protections—But Passes on Closing a Big Loophole
No surprises here: The City of Portland is still under a formal housing state of emergency declaration, and the city’s policy requiring landlords to pay relocation fees rides on. Well before an hours-long hearing on those two proposals this morning, it was clear Portland City Council would extend the housing emergency by 18 months—a move […]
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Hall Monitor: Dibs!
Chloe Eudaly Wants to Give Tenants and City Officials the First Shot At Buying Rental Properties
Chloe Eudaly wants to give tenants and city officials the first shot at buying rental properties.
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Mayor Ted Wheeler Wants to Extend Portland’s Housing State of Emergency by 18 Months
Portland’s housing state of emergency might get its longest extension to-date, if a proposal Mayor Ted Wheeler is cooking up moves forward. Tomorrow, Wheeler’s office plans to submit an ordinance for council consideration that would push an expiration date for the city’s housing emergency status out 18 months, spokesperson Michael Cox says. The ordinance would […]
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Another Shelter in Old Town Wouldn’t Break City Planning Promises, Ted Wheeler Now Says
Doug Brown A new 200-bed homeless shelter would not represent a “significant expansion of services” in Old Town, Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office now says. Citing the recent departure of a self-run homeless camp and transitional living facility from the neighborhood, the mayor is arguing that adding a large shelter wouldn’t run afoul of long-held city […]
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Prosecutors Admit a Drug Charge Against Homeless Advocate Ibrahim Mubarak Had No Merit
Ibrahim Mubarak Prosecutors have decided “the facts did not support” a drug charge against respected homeless advocate Ibrahim Mubarak, after police accused him of knowingly having meth in the car he was driving while helping a homeless person avoid being swept earlier this year. On September 6, four months after Mubarak’s May 2 arrest, court […]
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Nearly 70 Low-Income Portlanders Aren’t Being Evicted, After All
Residents of the Stewart Apartments can stay put. For weeks, 66 tenants of the decrepit, ultra-low-income apartments above Mary’s Club have been wondering if they’d be tossed out on the streets, as an agreement between the building’s owners and their longtime apartment management company ticked toward expiration. But that didn’t happen. The building’s part owner, […]
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The Run-down Stewart Apartments Are a Sanctuary for Poor Portlanders
They Might Be Gone at the End of the Month
They might be gone at the end of the month.
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The City Could Extend Renter Protection Law’s Life By Six Months
Activists demonstrate against no-cause evictions outside of Multnomah County headquarters in April 2016. Dirk VanderHart As local landlords mount a renewed legal challenge to the relocation payments Portland’s requiring of landlords these days, the city’s getting ready to extend the law’s life-span. As soon as next month, the Portland Housing Bureau plans to put legislation […]
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City Threatens to Cease Recognizing Neighborhood Association Considering Homeless Discrimination Bylaw
Residents of Hazelnut Grove in 2015. The camp has since grown into a collection of tiny homes. James Rexroad The city will consider “exercising its authority to suspend, and perhaps eventually terminate” its recognition of the Overlook Neighborhood Association if the group’s board next week votes to approve a discriminatory proposal that would prevent houseless […]
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Sorry, Laurelhurst. You’re Not Getting “Safe Zones” From Homelessness
Doug Brown “Safe zones” aren’t coming to posh and leafy Laurelhurst anytime soon. Last month, residents in the neighborhood forwarded a plea to Mayor Ted Wheeler, asking him to step up penalties for people who camp, use drugs, or go to the bathroom outdoors within 1,000 feet of a school, park, or another place frequented […]
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After Crackdown, the City’s Opening an East Portland Park to Homeless Outreach Workers
Volunteers with Operation Nightwatch hand out sandwiches to the homeless on Saturday, July 29. Thomas Teal As some Lents residents fume over an uptick in homeless meal services in their neighborhood, the City of Portland is offering up a city park for that purpose. At least during the current heat wave. Paul Underwood, executive director […]