News and info

• Willamette Week: City Will Scrap 28 Tiny Pods and Purchase 100 New Units, 2.22.24

• Oregonian (sub. req.): Portland to double, quadruple number of tiny homes at 2 safe rest villages, 2.8.24

• Portland Tribune: Multnomah Safe Rest Village could become Portland's largest, 11.30.23

• Portland Tribune: Portland says not if but how Southwest Portland Safe Rest Village will grow, 11.8.23

• Oregonian: Portland’s safe rest village model has shown success helping people get permanent homes, by Nicole Hayden, 5.9.23

• Homeowner flight from Portland's first Safe Rest Village has been a boon for new buyers: Some neighbors who protested the Multnomah Village site a year ago have since sold their homes and moved. The new owners have been pleasantly surprised - KGW News, 4.29.23

• Neighborhood We Love: Multnomah Village, PDX Parent, 1.4.2023 

"The neighborhood has recently become a safe haven for people experiencing homelessness. In June of 2022, 30 tiny houses opened their doors for people transitioning out of homelessness in the Village’s former Sears Armory site. Prior to its opening, some neighbors spoke out against the Multnomah Safe Rest Village’s (SRV) location. But by October of 2022, many neighbors acknowledged that the Multnomah SRV was a quiet and peaceful site, and support for it has spread. At a recent neighborhood association meeting, residents discussed how they could help Safe Rest Village residents keep warm through the winter. The organization Friends of the Multnomah Safe Rest Village, a group of neighbors, churches, schools and businesses, has also sprung up to support the SRV’s success."

• Our View: Neighbors Support Safe Rest Village - Portland Tribune opinion by Friends Robin Schauffler, Chris Dearth and Ruth Adkins, 10.11.22

• Multnomah Safe Rest Village Opens - City newsletter, 6.16.22

• Multnomah Safe Rest Village could open by mid-June - Portland Tribune, 6.9.22 

• First Portland homeless shelter village set to open next week - Oregonian, 6.9.22

• Portland’s newest Safe Rest Village set to open soon - Fox 12 News, 6.9.22

• Safe Rest Village opening soon in Multnomah Village for Portlanders facing homelessness - KATU, 6.9.22 

• Opinion: Multnomah neighbors should welcome ‘safe rest village’ - by Robin Schauffler, Sermin Yesilada and Amanda Fritz, Oregonian, 2.2.22

• Safe Rest Villages program City website: https://www.portland.gov/safe-rest-villages

• Tiny Pod Villages More Effective than Mass Shelters, PSU Study: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2024/05/tiny-home-villages-more-effective-than-group-shelters-at-getting-formerly-homeless-people-permanently-housed-study-finds.html

• All Good Northwest (Safe Rest Village operator - gratefully accepting donations)

• Ways to engage in the homeless and housing conversation among your peers, friends and family, Israel Bayer on his Substack, Everyone deserves a safe place to call home

• Poetry of Witness Orion magazine Autumn 2023, by Kaia Sand & homeless poets. Meditation by Kaia Sand, Executive Director of Street Roots, accompanied by photographs by Rian Dundon and stunning poetry by five Street Roots vendors, including our friend George McCarthy.

• Joint Office of Homeless Services

• Multnomah County's new downtown Behavioral Health Resource Center

• Portland State University (PSU) Homelessness Research Action Collaborative Study (Pod Village research)

• Metro Affordable Housing Bond program

• Metro Supportive Housing Services program - approved by voters in 2020, will provide up to $250 million/year for 10 years to end and prevent homelessness across the tri-county area

• Here Together Coalition the folks who passed the Supportive Housing Services measure and now advocate for its successful implementation and to keep voters informed on progress

• 3000 Challenge PDX - Street Roots & 40+ other organizations working to increase access to existing housing stock while more affordable housing is built

•  Israel Bayer, former director of Street Roots, OPB Interview

• Homelessness in America: The Journey Home, Israel Bayer, Ted Talk

• Homeless camps are often blamed for crime but experts say it’s not so simple, Martin Kaste, NPR

• HAT, Hillsdale Assistance Team

• Dignity Village

• Beacon Village

• Portland Street Response

• Portland Street Medicine

• Street Roots