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Rent assistance could quickly ease Oregon’s housing crisis

[This commentary was first published in The Statesman Journal.] In the most recent tally, more than 1,000 students in Salem-Keizer Public Schools were homeless — an indication of the devastating toll the housing crisis is taking on families locally and across the state. Although there is no silver bullet to the housing crisis, there is one

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Trump administration’s latest proposal could throw Oregonians onto the street

At a time when there is a dire need for federal leadership in confronting a national housing crisis, the Trump administration is heading down a path that will likely exacerbate the problem for many low-income Oregonians. Recently, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed changing the rules governing who qualifies for federal rent assistance.

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