Housing/Homelessness

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Tackling issues faced by fixed-income seniors in hot rental market

Airs at: Wed, 04/26/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Recovery Zone
  Sky-rocketing rents are especially hard on the elderly many of whom rely on Section 8 housing vouchers and Social Security. Meanwhile, Trump's budget proposals are creating uncertainty for federal and local agencies. What strategies to keep the elderly housed are being e... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour April 17, 2017

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Host Denise Morris talks with Margot Black about HB 2004 a proposed bill to end no-cause evictions and prevent massive rent hikes with rent control measures. Margot Black is a founding member of Portland T... Read more

Policing Trimet

Airs at: Mon, 04/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Desiree Hellegers interviews Huy Ong, Executive Director of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, about their organizing work with Bus Riders Unite and about Trimet's 2018 budget proposal, which includes $11 million dollars for a new Rose Quarter transit police station and ... Read more

Tense Calm at Council Chambers, mornnig session April 5, 2017

Airs at: Thu, 04/06/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
After weeks of disruptive city council meetings, an uneasy calm settled in for yesterday’s morning session. Many of the citizen activists are frustrated by, among other things, a lack of transparency at city hall and this informs their evolving tactics. Instead of disrupti... Read more

SE Portland Tenants Try to Organize Apartment Building

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Tenants at the Clifford Apartments in Southeast Portland are trying to organize. They say the management company, Income Property Management, has unfairly retaliated against tenants who have made complaints regarding health and safety. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg has this repo... Read more

Renters' Rights Comics

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this encore episode from March 2015, we learn about renters' rights with the help of cartoonist Becky Hawkins and the late Justin Buri, onetime Executive Director of Portland's Community Alliance of Tenants. When local educational group Know Your City needed a medium ... Read more

LEADing the Way

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Monday, Feb. 27, a coalition of Multnomah County and Portland officials and social service agencies announced that local law enforcement would begin a Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program (LEAD). LEAD was first developed in King County, Seattle, WA in 2011. LEAD is... Read more

ICE, & renters in danger of losing their homes - the impacts on Latino families

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Stories of ICE raids have riddled news outlets in earnest since President Trump was inaugurated. It has put many cities at odds with federal executive orders and caused national speculation over immigration rights and where they intersect with the Tenth Amendment. These hav... Read more

Village Coalition on Right 2 Survive Radio

Airs at: Wed, 02/08/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Right To Survive
All the tent cities in Portland are coming together to form a coalition - instead of ad hoc camps, the idea is to have organized encampments with codes of conduct. This will be the "Village Coalition'. Tune in to find out more. We will be taking your calls on this live broa... Read more

Rent Freeze & Relocation Assistance: Margot Black on More Talk Radio

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  "There are only two kinds of Portland landlords: those who want to be part of the solution to our housing crisis, and those who want to continue to take advantage of it via rent gouging and no-cause evictions that only serve to displace our community while increasing the... Read more