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Portland's Homeless: Mayor Charlie Hales awaits R2D2 meetings, Eugene mimics Dignity Village
Roy and Loretta Pascoe at R2D2
Roy and Loretta Pascoe have lived at R2D2 since January. Loretta is pregnant. They are two of some 70 people who sleep at the camp nightly and are awaiting the city's next move on October 16.
(Andrew Theen/The Oregonian)
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Dan Saltzman met with a dozen homeless individuals and advocates for nearly two hours on Friday.
The meeting was already on the books prior to
Thursday's five-hour public hearing
on Right 2 Dream Too's proposed move to a parking lot under a Broadway Bridge onramp.
Commissioner Amanda Fritz
spearheaded the plan
to relocate the nonprofit homeless rest area away from the prominent location at Northwest Fourth Avenue and West Burnside Streets.
Hales set up the meeting Friday because he wanted to hear from people experiencing homelessness, according to K.C. Cowan, the mayor’s spokesperson. Cowan is filling in for the mayor's spokesman Dana Haynes.
Cowan said the mayor was “really enthusiastic." Friday's conversation, she said, was broad in scope. “What are the needs out there, what is working well, where do we need more help.”
While nobody believes the
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Carson Ellis Finds Her Past in an Old Portland Warehouse
Elected amid 2012’s postrecession hangover, Mayor Charlie Hales now presides over an urban boom that powers the nation’s second-fastest growing economy. (Only oil-rich North Dakota grew faster than Oregon over the past decade; the Portland metro area makes up three-quarters of the state’s economy.) What does success mean for a city long proud of its quirk and affordability? In an interview edited for concision and clarity, His Honor looks to the future:
What are you excited about for 2015?
We get to turn, after two years, from repair work to forward motion. Economically, the city is in a very good place. When I ran for office, the only tower cranes in the city were on public projects. Now, there are a dozen or more on the horizon, mostly for private projects. That’s a huge change—and it’s not a bubble, it’s real growth. People are coming to Portland because of quality of place and opportunity.
But do you sense any unease about that growth?
Absolutely. We’re attracting all this economic growth, but is that prosperity shared? The Washington Post did a story: “Why Portland grows its own Swiss chard and steals your college graduates.” OK, that’s fun. But instead of stealing other people’s college graduates, wha
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On December 10, exactly triad weeks steer clear of Mayor Charlie Hales’ determined day amuse office, Metropolis solved veterans’ homelessness.
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