And you can probably guess one reason why.
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Portlanders Desperate for Federal Housing Assistance Won’t Get It This Year
And You Can Probably Guess One Reason Why
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A New Kind of Homeless Village is Coming to Kenton. It’s a Big Deal.
Two of 14 tiny homes that will soon populate a city-owned lot in Kenton. This was taken in December, while they were under construction. Karney Hatch At some point, probably next month, 14 homeless women will move into 14 tiny homes not far from the heart of Kenton. On one level it’s such a small […]
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Wingin’ It
Could Refurbished Airplanes Become Portland’s Next “Tiny Homes” Movement?
Could refurbished airplanes become Portland’s next “tiny homes” movement?
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R2DToo Could Move to SW Naito—But It Might Have to Move Again Next Year
The ongoing quest to move Right 2 Dream Too has been in hurry-up mode since October, when the well-respected homeless rest area blew a deadline for leaving its long-term home at NW Fourth and Burnside. R2DToo now has until April to get out, after an extension was granted by the Portland Development Commission, which is […]
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Developers Just Proposed Nearly 6,000 Apartments to Evade Portland’s New Affordable Housing Mandate
Nicole Cmar Want to ensure Portland developers build more housing? Threaten to make them offer affordable units. That’s one takeaway from new data obtained by the Mercury, which shows that developers applied to build an impressive 5,900 units in the two months before the city enacted a new inclusionary housing policy this month. And that’s […]
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No-Cause Evicted? Landlords Now Have to Pay Your Relocation Costs
Commissioner Chloe Eudaly addresses supporters of new renter protections Thursday afternoon. Dirk VanderHart With a few notable tweaks, Portland City Council this evening passed the strongest renter protections Portland’s seen since well before declaring a housing emergency in 2015. In a unanimous vote, council voted to immediately enact a law that will require landlords to […]
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Deborah Kafoury and Ted Wheeler are Asking Landlords to Cut Snowbound Tenants Some Slack
As the city was just beginning to thaw after the punishing winter storms last month, the advocacy group Portland Tenants United penned a letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler. The group wanted Wheeler to “call on Portland landlords to do their part by forgiving rent and late fees for tenants affected by the snow — without exception.” From […]
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Trumped Towers
One More Thing the New President’s Throwing into Chaos: Portland’s Affordable Housing Market
One more thing the new president’s throwing into chaos: Portland’s affordable housing market.
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Officials Are Doubling the Number of Homeless Counts in Portland
An outreach worker speaks with a homeless man during the last “point-in-time” homeless count in January 2015. Dirk VanderHart In a housing and homeless emergency, Portland’s once-every-two-years homeless counts have become immensely important. Again and again in conversations about the issue, you’ll hear references to almost 2,000 people unsheltered on the streets, or almost 4,000 […]
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Meanwhile In Washington State, Attorney General Cracks Down on Landlords Who Ban Felons, Citing Disproportionate Impact on Black Renters
Ads like this violate fair housing laws, according to the Washington State Attorney General. washington state attorney general’s office The Washington State Attorney General is putting landlords across the state on notice: Your Craigslist ads don’t have to say “no blacks allowed” to be discriminatory against African Americans—and if they are, the AG’s office will […]
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Eviction Wars
After the Landlord-Tenant Coalition Split Up, the “No Cause” Fight Heads to Salem
After the Landlord-Tenant Coalition split up, the “no-cause” eviction fight heads to Salem.
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The Past Clashes with the Present in Aquarius
Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s gorgeous Aquarius centers on Clara (Sônia Braga), a 65-year-old retired music critic, breast cancer survivor, and wealthy widow who refuses to sell her seaside apartment in an otherwise empty two-story called the Aquarius. Whether she’s dozing in an opulent fringed hammock, flirting with the handsome young lifeguard at the beach […]