The fund is also intended to keep Sotelo’s small business afloat throughout this ordeal. Sotelo’s protégée, Victoria Reader, is currently running Novo Start, according to Hoffman. Reader came to ...

With available funding nearly gone, the future is unclear for publicly funded affordable housing projects in the Portland area ...

Remembering a Portland legend, Dan Handelman: anti-war advocate, co-founder of Peace and Justice Works and the brain behind Portland Copwatch, died of a stroke at age 60. (Courtesy photo by Peace and ...

Portland would normally collect up front from developers unwilling to meet the city’s affordable housing standards. Block 216’s switcheroo delayed its payment. Now, it may never pay. When developers ...

For many housed people, there is a tendency to conflate unhoused populations with violent crime and danger, but crime rates tell a different story. Editor's note: This story contains graphic ...

Dr. Helen Riess, author of 'The Empathy Effect,' says the way we communicate can influence how and what we feel for others Empathy can be learned, and it can be lost. Every time a person chooses to ...

The legality of Grants Pass’ homelessness policies is once again under fire. A judge halted enforcement of the city’s latest rules on March 28 while a lawsuit to toss them permanently moves forward.

One 2023 death reveals a complicated web of policy and procedures impacting the efficacy of the city’s emergency response systems It takes about seven minutes for Portland Street Response to get ...

In Great Britain last year, a survey taken before Christmas found that 74% of people were worried about the levels of homelessness. The survey commissioned by the charity Crisis measured attitudes ...

Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public ...

SEX WORKERS have been making money in Portland’s Old Town for as long as the neighborhood has existed. In the late 1800s, prostitutes filled storefronts known as cribs, hung out in saloons, and held ...

Oregonians use thousands of single-use beverage containers every day. Recycling them is a low-barrier job for Portlanders known as ‘canners.’ Scott Atkins started collecting and recycling cans and ...