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Molly Harbarger

Molly Harbarger

Editor, Project Homeless at The Seattle Times

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  • English
Covering topics
  • Human Rights
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Recent Articles

oregonlive.com

Hundreds of protesters have been charged with interfering with a peace officer. But should it rem...

More than 20% of protesters arrested this summer committed no other crime than IPO, according to the list of charges kept by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. It is by far the most common protest-related charge. Since June, nearly all arrestees charged by local law enforcement agencie…
about 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Portland has done almost no oversight of business districts that co...

Enhanced Service Districts are zones where businesses pay an extra fee that is collected by the city’s revenue department.
about 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Cities cannot fine homeless people for living outside, U.S. judge r...

Grants Pass has joined Boise in eliciting a precedent-setting court ruling that could alter how cities nationwide cite and fine people living outside.
about 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Portland protest escalates to arrests, force Friday after overnight...

The protest unfolded hours after President Donald Trump voiced particular scorn for the Portland demonstrations.
about 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Officials balked at homeless shelter motels price tag, now continue...

The Joint Office of Homeless Services, funded by the city and Multnomah County, opened three more motels this month to house people who had been lodged in temporary emergency coronavirus shelters in public buildings. There are now four such motels, two of which the city and county have an option to …
about 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

For Portland police to provide the name of an officer at protests, ...

Back in June, then-Portland Police Chief Jami Resch first told officers they could cover their name tags on their uniforms with tape, instead showing their personnel number during protests in Portland. And while officers can be identified internally by these personnel numbers, they can’t be identifi…
over 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Portland’s Justice Center fence: A daunting place after dark for bo...

Through more than four weeks of protests, the fence was a visceral symbol of how protesters view how police view them: as a threat to them and the city’s institutions. It was erected, protesters say, to protect police from impassioned residents who desperately want cops to directly see and hear the …
over 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Volunteers serving meals to homeless community drop lawsuit against...

The Parks and Recreation Department implemented in October the new permit, which officials said was necessary to serve mass meals like the nightly Free Hot Soup events at Director Park in Southwest Portland. But they did not enforce the new system after the lawsuit was filed, allowing the meals to g…
over 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Few homeless people have coronavirus. Portland still plans to resum...

When the city stopped dispersing campsites, officials cited federal public health guidelines that warned moving people from one informal camp to another could spread the coronavirus like wildfire.But left alone to camp in one spot, few campers are socially distancing, and neighbors and business owne…
over 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Could motels hit hard by coronavirus pandemic help answer Portland’...

City commissioners indicated they would be more supportive of the city using federal coronavirus relief money to buy a motel or two than to pay a hotel owner rooms charges over the long term to house homeless residents.
over 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

The People’s Depot is Portland’s semi-secret bottle return program ...

The People’s Depot is a closed-loop system that employs eight workers and volunteers to make it easier for some people to earn income from can returns. At
over 4 years ago
oregonlive.com

Portland police union, developers, nonprofit revive Wapato Jail as ...

Nearly a year after Wapato Jail was sold to developer Jordan Schnitzer to be razed and turned into a warehouse, it is back in conversation as a potential homeless shelter.
about 5 years ago
oregonlive.com

If not jail, hospital, then what? Portland aims to dispatch better ...

Eugene’s CAHOOTS, a 48-person program that provides medical and behavioral health services, has become the national model that many cities are trying to emulate. Portland joined that list this year when the City Council dedicated $500,000 to figure out how to adapt CAHOOTS to a larger urban area.
about 5 years ago
oregonlive.com

Multnomah County sees 20% more people sleeping outside in latest ho...

The 2,037 people who were found sleeping outside is the highest the count has found in the last decade and represents some of the area’s most entrenched issues -- they are disproportionately people of color, mentally ill or have a substance abuse problem.
about 5 years ago
oregonlive.com

Flu kills Portland woman, 37, and unborn child

A late-season surge of influenza A -- a strain of the flu that has made up about 99 percent of all flu cases this year -- has sickened thousands of people across the country.
over 5 years ago
oregonlive.com

Grand Ronde win right to keep Willamette Falls fishing scaffold

Despite objections from three Northwest tribes and Portland General Electric, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde won the right to keep a fishing scaffold to catch 15 salmon.
almost 6 years ago
oregonlive.com

A new way to think about design: People with disabilities centered ...

The Community Vision building is a unique hub for people with disabilities -- both in design and services.
about 6 years ago
oregonlive.com

How Portland quietly change the world of tea

In a city where many tourists come just to eat at our restaurants and drink our coffee, beer and wine, Portland’s unrivaled tea scene has gone largely unnoticed. That’s about to change.
almost 8 years ago