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The Portland Tribune, Jan. 9, 2014 Reports of drug dealing plague Old Town homeless experiment Bud Clark Commons Portland police are concerned that the city’s highest profile public housing project is becoming unmanageable. In early December, Portland Police Chief Mike Reese told the city’s Housing Commissioner Dan Saltzman that he was considering filing a chronic […]
From the Portland Observer, August 3, 2011 As the City of Portland’s 10-year-plan to end homelessness is reaching its half way mark, government agencies, non-profits and institutions have partnered together to get homeless people into permanent homes after a net loss over the past several decades of affordable housing in the downtown area. One such […]
From The Portland Tribune, May 10, 2011 Housing First policy opens doors to alcoholics and drug users Jason Renaud was trying to help a longtime street addict who said he was finally willing to do what it takes to stop being homeless. For the first time in 20 years, the man sobered up and secured […]
From the Portland Tribune, May 5, 2011 Portland’s most vulnerable have a shot at a free home John hasn’t had a place to live in four years. Being in and out of jail is the closest he’s come to that. A longtime methamphetamine addict, John (not his real name) says he mostly uses marijuana now. […]
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