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Max Weisenbloom

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Portland, similarly to the rest of the country, is experiencing a housing crisis. Rising rents, low housing stocks and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to produce record numbers of people experiencing housing insecurity, eviction, and homelessness. While new funding has recently been approved in response to this crisis, how that money is spent and used will determine its success. Through conversations with architects, service providers, and people experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness, this study aims to ground existing housing data in people's real world experiences. Housing insecurity is experienced differently by everyone. Because of the deep intersections houselessness has with disability, mental health, addiction and other factors, it is impossible to define a single path either out of or into housing. However, the struggles of Portland's current housing situation can be broadly characterized into three groups: An inability to create new affordable housing at scale, a failure to prevent people who are housed from loosing their home, and finally an apathy to rapidly rehouse and support those who have. These are some of the ways Portlanders have fallen through the cracks.

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University of Oregon / 2023

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Max Weisenbloom