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Welcome to OpenHousing.net!
Welcome to OpenHousing.net!
OpenHousing.net is part of Open: Housing, a community-wide collaboration aimed at creating inclusive, informed, cross-sector public…
Open: Housing
Oct 3, 2016
This year, let’s talk about race, power and place in our region
This year, let’s talk about race, power and place in our region
Kicking off in January 2017, two community conversations are exploring the history and impacts of unequal access to property ownership for…
Open: Housing
Jan 24, 2017
Follow the Open: Housing Journalism Collaborative this summer
Follow the Open: Housing Journalism Collaborative this summer
With Pamplin Media Group and KGW, Open: Housing journalists are exploring housing issues and trends that matter to the community.
Open: Housing
May 18, 2017
Controlling Rent Costs
Why are new apartments so expensive?
Why are new apartments so expensive?
We did the math to find out who gets what — then explored 9 ways to make rents lower.
Michael Andersen
Apr 4, 2018
Giving Ground
A change of heart
A change of heart
Sheila Mason opposed Kenton Women’s Village, then became one of its biggest supporters
Open: Housing
Jul 31, 2017
Courting Kenton
Courting Kenton
How a neighborhood came to embrace a village for homeless women
Open: Housing
Jul 31, 2017
New model could lower housing costs for low-income Portland residents
New model could lower housing costs for low-income Portland residents
How do the costs and benefits of a proposed “modular co-housing” development compare to those of tiny-house villages?
Open: Housing
Jul 31, 2017
Institutional players offer hedging support for homeless villages
Institutional players offer hedging support for homeless villages
Newer village models address some, but not all, concerns and criticisms
Open: Housing
Jul 31, 2017
Why villages?
Why villages?
Homeless villages offer residents what shelters often can’t: a sense of safety and a chance to reconnect
Open: Housing
Jul 12, 2017
Contrasts and commonalities
Contrasts and commonalities
Portland’s homeless villages share common aspects, but each is different.
Open: Housing
Jun 19, 2017
From protest to a place of their own
From protest to a place of their own
Portland’s early homeless villages inspired and shaped new housing experiments across town and around the globe
Open: Housing
Jun 19, 2017
SERIES INTRO: A renegade housing movement reaches a crossroads
SERIES INTRO: A renegade housing movement reaches a crossroads
Seventeen years after homeless agitators founded Dignity Village as an act of social protest, Portland’s first publicly backed…
Open: Housing
Jun 12, 2017
The mayor and the mavericks
The mayor and the mavericks
A city-sanctioned homeless village in North Portland took momentum from a protest in Lents.
Open: Housing
Jun 12, 2017
A resident’s journey to Kenton Women’s Village
A resident’s journey to Kenton Women’s Village
After two years sleeping outdoors along the Columbia Slough, Debbie Haskett looks forward to having her own place, and feeling safe.
Open: Housing
Jun 12, 2017
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