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Portland housing bond: Why is the city taking so long to create new homes? Updated 7:30 AM; Facebook Share As winter wound down in 2018, Chardonai Jones and her young son bounced between living in a hotel room and her car. She was 18 with another baby on the way, had no credit or rental history, and her fiancé had an eviction on his record. Portland landlords didn’t think they were reliable tenants. But she and her family found home at The Ellington, an affordable housing complex that the city of Portland had just purchased as the first funded by a voter-approved housing bond.

Portland leaders hope sweeping $6 million plan stems historic shooting surge Updated 6:28 PM; Facebook Share Portland’s mayor and commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved a $6 million plan they say is the best option to combat a dramatic rise in shootings and gun deaths that’s placed the city on track for a record number of homicides. It also provides millions of new dollars to community organizations for anti-violence work and authorizes the addition of two dozen unarmed rangers to patrol parks and surrounding neighborhoods. “The work in front of us is that of building a community...

by Alex Zielinski • Apr 7, 2021 at 4:36 pm DRAFTFOLIO / GETTY IMAGES Portland City Council responded to an alarming uptick in local gun violence by unanimously passing a $6 million emergency budget package on Wednesday. The proposal finances grants for community-based organizations that work directly with Portlanders impacted by gun violence, significantly expands Portland's park ranger program, and funds crime data collection and analysis. It does not include any additional funding for the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), a solution initially sugges...

The plan proposes the following: • The Portland Police Bureau will internally realign resources to gain the patrol, analytic and investigative capacities PPB says it needs to combat gun violence. • PPB will immediately add six additional assault investigative detectives and one sergeant to coordinate gun-related investigations working in partnership with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. • The city’s new community safety transition director will lead the development of the gun violence prevention response plans and the community safety plan. • $1.4 million will go t...

Editorial: Portland’s gun violence surge needs dedicated police team Updated 6:15 AM; Today 6:15 AM An investigation is underway after one person was fatally shot in March near a North Portland park, police say.Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian Facebook Share Contemplating the 266 shootings and 25 homicides in just the first three months of this year, Antoinette Edwards was struggling to understand how Portland city commissioners could oppose the mayor’s proposal to restart a Portland Police gun-violence team. What more do commissioners need to know to understand the trauma neighbors feel abo...