Open: Housing

OpenHousing.net is part of Open: Housing, a community-wide collaboration aimed at creating inclusive, informed, cross-sector public…

Kicking off in January 2017, two community conversations are exploring the history and impacts of unequal access to property ownership for…

With Pamplin Media Group and KGW, Open: Housing journalists are exploring housing issues and trends that matter to the community.

How a neighborhood came to embrace a village for homeless women

How do the costs and benefits of a proposed “modular co-housing” development compare to those of tiny-house villages?

Newer village models address some, but not all, concerns and criticisms

Homeless villages offer residents what shelters often can’t: a sense of safety and a chance to reconnect

Portland’s homeless villages share common aspects, but each is different.

Portland’s early homeless villages inspired and shaped new housing experiments across town and around the globe

Seventeen years after homeless agitators founded Dignity Village as an act of social protest, Portland’s first publicly backed…

A city-sanctioned homeless village in North Portland took momentum from a protest in Lents.

After two years sleeping outdoors along the Columbia Slough, Debbie Haskett looks forward to having her own place, and feeling safe.