As Portland's homeless population grows, people – and politicians – are drawn to blanket assumptions about the lives of people living unsheltered, often leaving individual stories lost in the shuffle.
Here's one of those stories:
You have 180 days left to eat foie gras in Portland:
Hush Season 2 won the SPJ Award for best investigative audio reporting! The SPJ judges did what OPB leadership admitted they never did before canning our show: they actually took the time to listen to Hush.
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What's going on with the dang Moda Center, why everyone has so many Opinions about it, how the city is involved, and how YOU can get involved:
Per the city, it appears a vacancy tax might not deliver the jolt Portland needs to address empty storefronts and rentals.
Portlanders remember a woman's legacy after violent death.
Primarily, the $60,000 report suggests Oregon tax policy and constitutional limits create significant legal hurdles for the proposed charge on empty storefronts.
Learned yesterday that Becky Lange, a woman I spoke with years ago about being destabilized by homeless sweeps, was killed after being assaulted in downtown Portland last week.
She was a bright light. And not the first person experiencing homeless I've interviewed who's been fatally assaulted.
The latest turn of the screw in this bureaucratic saga related to Portland's ICE bldg.
The former county commissioner is the third major candidate to announce their candidacy so far.
How the national Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, meant to boost affordable housing development, has created a glut of empty apartments out of reach to low-income renters:
Alex Zielinski
Alex Zielinski
Alex Zielinski
As crews continue to work through hazardous conditions, company and government officials say it’s too early to know what might have caused the implosion in Longview that killed 11 people.
Nearly 2,000 of Portland’s subsidized units sat vacant and unused at last count. The same situation has repeated from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver. Economists and other academic res...
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Alex Zielinski
Alex Zielinski
Everyone is sharing their SPJ awards, so I'll post Hush won for investigative audio reporting.
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Alex Zielinski
Portland attorneys are challenging the land use violation order at the ICE building, calling it “textbook gamesmanship."
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The owner of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building has blocked the city from ruling on a land use violation against his property, a ruling that could have imposed steep fines against him.
