Tenants have described the same issues to WW in several Home Forward buildings: a permissive culture that allows other tenants’ behavior to go unaddressed.

Skye Brocker-Knapp, the director of Portland Solutions, wrote to the Portland City Council that up to 134 beds currently operated by Sunstone Way would be closing in the coming months.

Home Forward, the city’s housing authority, last week divulged more information to its board of commissioners about its high vacancy rates, nonpayment of rent and cash flow woes.

A policy intended to dampen human trafficking and sexual exploitation particularly along 82nd Avenue last week hit opposition from some councilors who worried that it would penalize small business owners and drive exploitation further into the shadows, making it harder to identify and help victims.

A Texas consulting firm led a session in which councilors expressed their policy hopes and dreams.

A series of WW stories over the past year revealed how the project’s leaders made lofty and dubious promises to state and local elected officials to secure money to purchase a headquarters in Old Town.

Little, if any, discussion addressed the difficult question of what councilors would seek to cut

Peterson will be leaving her voter-elected position nine months before her second term is over.

“Is this system to its core rotten?” Councilor Eric Zimmerman mused in a meeting last week.

Amid an ongoing transportation funding crisis, a committee of the Portland City Council is mulling a $68 million funding package that would charge homeowners, renters and utility franchise companies a monthly fee so that the city could fill potholes and keep its streets from deteriorating.