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Portlanders ask city for more flexible sewer requirements for RVs and tiny homes Updated 10:17 PM; Today 6:25 PM Facebook Share The Portland City Council hgot public input Wednesday on proposed rules that would allow people to legally live in an RV or tiny house on wheels parked on a single-family residential property. The proposal on the table would require people living in an RV or tiny home on private property to have a formalized sewer hook-up like what campgrounds have. Speakers largely supported allowing people to legally occupy such structures but opposed requiring the sewage infrast...

Portland weighs loosening city code around where homeless shelters, organized camps can open “You can't be perpetually in a state of emergency. We have to find a new normal at some point,” said Eric Engstrom, a principal planner with the city. Author: Maggie Vespa Updated: 8:27 PM PDT March 15, 2021 PORTLAND, Ore. — Nearly 100 people, as of Monday evening, were signed up to speak to Portland’s City Council Wednesday about a proposed list of changes to city codes surrounding where homeless shelters and organized camps can open.  It would essentially wav...

Council delays vote on homeless shelter expansion plan March 11 2021 A second hearing on the proposal is added after concerns grow that too many new shelters will be sited in East Portland. The City Council has scheduled an additional hearing on a controversial proposal to allow more homeless shelters, including sanctioned campsites, in most of Portland. The first hearing on the Shelter to Housing Continuum Project is scheduled for Wednesday, March 17, as originally planned. But, largely because of concerns that a disproportionate number of new shelters could be sited in East Port...

Updated March 10 The Portland City Council will vote soon on a proposal that would make it easier to site homeless shelters—but East Portlanders worry they will bear the brunt of the policy shift. "East Portland doesn't trust the city," says community advocate Donal Mac Uileagoid. "It feels like all the problems of the city are being shoved to the eastside." The Shelter to Housing Continuum Project would make it easier for anyone—property owners, nonprofits and the city—to open homeless shelters and would make other changes to city zoning code, such as legalizing RV occupancy on re...

Read The Full Transcript Stacy Shoemaker Rauen: So, hi. I’m here with Jennifer. Jennifer, thank you so much for joining me today. It’s so good to see you. Jennifer Johanson: I’m super excited, Stacy. Great to see you too. SSR: Awesome. So we always start at the beginning here. Where did you grow up? JJ: Well, let’s see, I was born in Los Angeles and my dad was in medical school. Then he got drafted and we lived in North Carolina. Then we moved back to Minnesota. And then we moved to Texas. So I’ve been in all four corners. But I mostly grew up in Texas.