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This report details the outcomes and insights from Atlohsa’s Indigenous-Led Approach to Care & Advocacy (ILACA) initiative. It explores how culturally grounded, community-driven solutions support Indigenous individuals experiencing homelessness,…

Housing First is a proven evidence-based approach to addressing homelessness. However, programs operating under the Housing First model do not receive the necessary funding to meet the needs of all people experiencing homelessness. In this study, we…

The practice of credit scoring is ubiquitous in today’s economy. Three-digit credit scores or their underlying data are applied well beyond the lending decisions for which they were originally designed and are routinely used in the contexts of…

This is the webpage that hosts all of Portland Housing Bureau's State of Housing Reports

Brief blog post about some of the connections between incarceration, homelessness, and race, with a focus on Black Americans.

Long, detailed publication exporing racial disparities in crime and crime victimization, racial disparities produced by policing, and some ways these disparities could be reduced.

Short piece with facts about sentencing disparities in the US.

Long report about demographic differences in sentencing, with short summary on landing page.

TED Ed about how American suburbs were shaped by racial covenants, and how this led to racial disparities in homeownershpi

NPR interview, interview transcript, and summary of interview with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law.

Compares proposed Trump housing policy to 1980s era housing policy.

Brief history of African American exclusion from and eventual access to suburbs.

Report explaining the interaction between the war on drugs and housing policy, and ways in which public housing access was restricted based on real or suspected drug use.

Top-line summary of racial disparities in Oregon's eviction filings. There is a link to a detailed report on this page also.

The United States continues to face an eviction crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and that disproportionately affects communities of color, particularly Black women.