Housing/Homelessness

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Local Folks Podcast Season 3: Helping the Homeless, Episode 4

Airs at: Wed, 01/01/2020 at 6:45pm - Fri, 01/01/2021 at 6:45pm
Produced for:  Local Folks
The Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center wouldn’t exist without the hardworking local folks who volunteer their time to help fellow community members in need. From greeting people as they come in, to serving food and coffee, distributing items like warm, dry socks, helping peop... Read more

Death on the Streets

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Desiree Hellegers covers the Portland Homeless Persons Memorial Day Vigil on December 21st and the very real life and death stakes in the upcoming City Council vote on a 22.5 million dollar five year contract to sweep the city's houseless encampments. Joshua Rainey Phot... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for Dec 30, 2019

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts the last Old Mole Variety Hour of 2019, and we hear these pieces: Public Power: Bill Resnick talks with Mari Rose Taruc of the Utility Justice Campaign  of Oakland, CA, which is seeking a publicly-accountable takeover of the investor-owned utility PG&... Read more

Radical Hospitality, Culinary Breeding, and Fruit Trees

Airs at: Wed, 12/18/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
The December show will get you thinking about serving others, plant breeding, and when to plant your next fruit tree. On the show, Dinae Horne will talk about what it’s like to go from running a restaurant to running the meal program at St Francis Dining Hall. Lane Selman o... Read more

Police Union contract negotiation listening session offers hope for change but also illustrates the limitations of bargaining

Airs at: Tue, 12/17/2019 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Monday night, Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty hosted a listening session on the upcoming police contract negotiations. The meeting was open to the public, soliciting community response to the state of policing in Portland. As the contract negotiations... Read more

Will the Feds take over Wapato to warehouse the houseless?

Airs at: Wed, 12/18/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
  Join the 3rd Wednesday Portland Assembly crew as they take a deeper look at signals by the Trump Administration indicating that their “solutions to the homeless issue” may be nothing more than incarcerating homeless people. Will Wapato be a model? Among the many bad sig... Read more

13 TRIPP-P 24Nov2019

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2019 at 12:00am - Tue, 12/31/2019 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
TRIPP-P sits down with Kaia Sand, the Director of Street Roots - "Portland's flagship publication addressing homelessness and poverty since 1998."   In episode #13 we discuss the new Portland Street Response Program and the involvement of Street Roots, how the downtown off... Read more

Rene Denfeld Encore

Airs at: Tue, 12/17/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents an encore broadcast of Portland author Rene Denfeld about The Butterfly Girl, her sequel to the The Child Finder. Her follow up to her book about Naomi, a private investigator, an exceptional young woman who has a talent for finding lost children. In this n... Read more

Oregon Age-Friendly Summit offers new ideas for livable communities

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2019 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  What does it mean to age in place? That was one of the questions under consideration at the kickoff event for a statewide Age-Friendly Summit today. At the Asian Health Services center in Portland, Governor Kate Brown, Mayor Ted Wheeler, and other advocates spoke about ... Read more

Local Folks Podcast Season 3: Helping The Homeless, Episode 3

Airs at: Sun, 12/01/2019 at 6:30pm - Thu, 12/31/2020 at 6:30pm
Produced for:  Local Folks
There are so many obstacles to providing services to the homeless. They are often hard to contact because they do not have an address or a phone and they often don't have the documentation that we take for granted such as a driver’s license or a birth certificate. Couple th... Read more