Tiffany Camhi
Oregon Public Broadcasting-
More than half a million people in the state carry some amount of federal student debt.
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The Student Emergency Needs Package looks to help the state’s public college and university students with the rising costs of housing, food and transportation.
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A bill in the Oregon Legislature is looking to set up a pilot program that would give $1,000 a month to low or no income Oregonians over a two year period. If passed, it would create the nation’s first statewide guaranteed income program. The proposal has sparked heated debate.
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Portland is moving forward with a plan to create several massive outdoor homeless encampments. The idea is partly based on outdoor shelters run by Urban Alchemy in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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The state’s leading housing agency has agreed to fund the development of more than 1,200 permanent supportive housing units across Oregon. But it still leaves a wide gap in the state’s affordable housing needs.
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Some homeless services organizations in Portland are borrowing a concept from the commercial real estate world to quickly house people experiencing homelessness. Now they’re looking to scale up the use of what’s called master leasing.
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Fifty years ago Oregon officials decided to blow up a dead whale. What happened next is the stuff of legend.
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Oregon’s health care interpreters help medical providers and limited-English speaking patients understand each other, but the coronavirus pandemic is pushing many interpreters out of a job.