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Portland 2046 is Humans for Housing’s new advocacy initiative. Visit the website to learn about our six policy priorities, and sign up at the link in our bio to receive the latest policy news, invitations to events, and opportunities to take action.

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Portland2046 is now live!

Portland 2046 is Humans for Housing’s new advocacy initiative. The website combines data, stories, solutions, and action. We invite you to explore the website and get involved in local solutions.

Learn more and visit our website (link in bio) portland2046.com

Last month, the National Low Income Housing Coalition released a report from its first-ever survey of renters across the United States. Echoing conditions for Portland-area renters, nearly half of renter households nationwide are cost-burdened and more than a quarter are severely cost-burdened.

The survey focused on under-explored elements of the rental experience, asking participants about housing costs and rental subsidies, how well accessibility needs are being met, what kinds of habitability issues they experience and how easy it is to get those addressed, and why and how often they move. This large-scale survey brings a deeper and much-needed understanding around the experience of renting in the United States.

NOTE: Data depicts renters who moved or almost moved in the last two years.

Read the full NLIHC National Renter Survey at the link in our bio 📖

We're honored to be in rooms like this...

Last week, No Place to Grow Old was part of the Opening General Session at USAging's 51st Annual Conference in San Diego, the largest annual gathering of aging services professionals in the country, drawing over 1,400 leaders, decision-makers, and business executives from Area Agencies on Aging.

Davey Schaupp, Director of No Place to Grow Old, spoke to the room about senior homelessness ahead of a screening of the film.

Screenings of our very first storytelling project are still being planned across the nation in rooms large and small. To plan a screening of your own, fill out an interest form on our website –– we'll send you all the information you need to get started.

We are sad to share the loss of Herbert Olive, one of the storytellers featured in our documentary No Place to Grow Old, who passed away last month.

Herbert stayed in his affordable apartment until the very end of his life. When his health declined, he moved to a long-term care facility surrounded by family the whole way. His story reached thousands of people across the country and put a human face on senior homelessness for audiences who'd never thought about it before.

We were honored to work with him. He was a kind man, a loving father, and an inspiration to everyone who met him.

Rest in peace, Herb.

“Housing is a matter of life or death. Unhoused people die 20 years younger than their housed counterparts.”
 
“Every human deserves a home.”
 
On July 16, we hand-delivered 185 letters to Portland Metro Councilors, written by our community as part of the Dear Portland letter-writing campaign.
 
Together, they run over 200 pages and roughly 27,500 words.
 
Nearly half of the letters named housing affordability as the root problem. One in five framed the crisis as a moral issue, not just a policy failure. Almost as many wrote about what it’s doing to kids and families. And when we asked people what they wanted their elected officials to do, one answer came back more than any other: fund and build more affordable housing.
 
These letters aren’t talking points. They’re what our neighbors actually think, in their own words, now sitting on the desks of the people who can act on them.
 
We’re rallying together as a city, ready to give you ways to advocate and get deeper involved in bringing an end to Portland’s housing affordability crisis. Follow along and subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated 🏠 ♥️