The Struggle is Real: How Higher Costs are Affecting Portland Families
If you’ve felt a financial crunch in recent years, you are not alone. In fact, the rising cost of living is pushing many Portland families to consider relocation.
If you’ve felt a financial crunch in recent years, you are not alone. In fact, the rising cost of living is pushing many Portland families to consider relocation.
Did you know that Portland has more than 90 formally recognized neighborhoods? These diverse communities fit snugly into geographic boundaries, known throughout the city as quadrants. Interestingly enough, there aren’t four quadrants, but rather six.
Despite high interest rates, there are still affordable neighborhoods in Portland.
Find schools, childcare, after-school activities and enrichment programs in our Education Guide.
This North Portland neighborhood has everything a family could ask for — parks, a library and restaurants galore.
Window shop northwest’s Alphabet District. Families say it offers a European feel — right in the heart of the bustling city.
Plenty of Portlanders are proud of their neighborhoods, but when it comes to community spirit, St. Johns is in a class of its own.
With many organizations that focus on building community, Lents in Southeast is on the rise.
Beloved Cully eatery Beeswing might be long gone, but this Northeast Portland neighborhood remains a hive of culinary and cultural activity. Cully packs a surprising number of community-investment initiatives into its 2.75 square miles, including a thriving neighborhood association — the Cully Association of Neighbors — and Living Cully, a decade-old sustainable growth effort between Habitat …
Tessa Clampitt’s dream home is two stories, modern, and painted pink, with land enough for a few horses. Zechariah McLaurin and Dezirae Serrano would like to rent-to-own a nice house in a nice neighborhood in the Portland metro. It doesn’t matter where, as long as it’s got good schools and room for their three kids …
A search for affordable rent and room to roam lands one Portland family in a lesser-known North Portland waterfront enclave.
Can we build our way to more equal housing opportunities? One Portland architect makes a case for conscious density.
Rising rents aren’t just a Portland problem — just ask Pacific Northwest natives Melissa and Roberto Lopez.
Is 300 square feet enough room for a family of four? One Vancouver family sounds off on the joys (and trials) of going tiny.
To navigate the logistics of an international move, a family turns to a Portland nonprofit.