Hand-built tiny homes are being erected all over Portland—some directly on sidewalks and public right-of-ways. They appear most heavily concentrated in inner Southeast. Unhoused residents tell me activists have been supplying building materials, while others say they constructed their shelters entirely by hand using items salvaged from the street.#homeless | Truth on the streets

Portland is currently at the center of the national imagination. It seems like barely a day goes by without President Donald Trump referring to the city as a war zone. On Sunday, the president told reporters: “Portland is burning to the ground.” But what is life like for the vast majority of Portlanders who don’t live across the street from the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility? The Oregonian visited parks around Portland on Monday and Tuesday and asked Portlanders: “What