Housing/Homelessness

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Paul Susi of PDX ID Assistance

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Paul Susi of PDX ID Assistance helps unhoused people who've been swept by the city's law enforcement and lost their crucial personal documents. He's expanding his reach in the local community and has insight on aspects of recovery that are not on the radar of many people.  Read more

Rebroadcast: Common Ground Puts Common Ownership of Land on the Agenda

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Our guest is Jeff Strang from Common Ground OR/WA, talking about land ownership, wealth control, and taxes. He’s talking about a policy strategy for Oregon like in Alaska, where residents get money every year through a tax on the oil industry – except in Oregon it would be ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 13, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers hosts this episode of The Old Mole Variety Hour, which features Criminalizing Solidarity: Historian Rachel Ida Buff talks with Frann Michel about connections between attacks on encampments in support of Palestine and encampments of houseless people, as ... Read more

Criminalizing Solidarity

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Historian Rachel Ida Buff talks with Frann Michel about connections between attacks on encampments in support of Palestine and encampments of houseless people, as well as attacks on other forms of collective solidarity and the commons, including migrant caravans and wate... Read more

Criminalizing Misfortune

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Kerry, Leon and Andrés who are currently receiving services at the Beaverton Shelter. They discuss the challenges that led them to homelessness, substance abuse and ultimately to find support to help them achieve their goals. They express their ... Read more

"It Took A Village to Bring Me Back to Myself": Michael's Story

Airs at: Fri, 12/13/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
This episode of “Out of the Streets of Portland” features the story of Michael, who successfully navigated out of decades of homelessness and substance use to support and recovery in one of the alternative, village-style shelters that have significantly expanded over the pa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for December 9, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode features a discussion of possible changes to the Metro Supportive Housing Services Measure  and commentary from Desiree Hellegers on Mourning, Solidarity, and freeing Leonard Peltier.  Frann Michel hosts. More about the segments:   Support Supportive Housi... Read more

Support Supportive Housing

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel talks with Molly Hogan of the Welcome Home Coalition about adjustments to the Supportive Housing Services Measure. Welcome Home members are calling on the Tri-county Metropolitan Regional Council to make sure that adjustments honor the initial intentions of ... Read more

Socialist City Councilors-elect Talk Labor

Airs at: Mon, 11/25/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for Labor Radio
Socialist City Councilors-elect Tiffany Koyama Lane, known as Teacher Tiffany, and Mitch Green, a green energy economist, talk about their vision for building working-class power in Portland, Oregon Read more

Doing What Works: Overdose Prevention Sites

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Doing What Works: Overdose Prevention Sites. The Institute for Addiction Science at the University of Southern California is holding a Distinguished Speaker Series. The featured speaker for October was Alex Kral, PhD, a Distinguished Fel... Read more