Tiffany Camhi

The holidays are in full swing, and for many of us that means celebrating with friends and family. As we gather with loved ones this month, OPB's Donald Orr has a few events to check out this December.

The Portland region’s first coordinated supportive housing effort recently wrapped up its first year of services. The tax is projected to collect $250 million tax dollars per year until 2030. New preliminary data from Metro, the region’s elected government agency, looks at some of the one-year impacts on homelessness and housing from the new tax.

The state’s leading housing agency has agreed to fund the development of more than 1,200 permanent supportive housing units across Oregon. But it still leaves a wide gap in the state’s affordable housing needs.

Unless the life of the "mother" is directly threatened, Idaho law will require patients to present their doctor with a police report documenting rape or incest to obtain a legal abortion. That could pose a problem, as police typically do not release reports associated with ongoing investigations.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade yesterday puts the power to allow or ban abortions in the hands of state governments. In Oregon and Washington abortion remains a fully legal health procedure, protected by state law. But that’s not the case in several other states, here abortion clinics are already closing. OPB’s health reporter Amelia Templeton joined “All Things Considered” host Tiffany Camhi to discuss how the decision could affect the Northwest.

The US Supreme Court today ended nearly 50 years of the constitutional right to an abortion. But along the West Coast, abortion rights are still protected. Martha Reilly is a doctor with Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon who joined OPB to explain what the effect the Supreme Court decision will have on Oregonians.

Tony DeFalco, executive director of the Latino Network, said the request was prompted by this year’s deadly mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. The white gunman in Buffalo killed 10 Black people in an attack the president has called “hate-filled domestic terrorism” and a “racially motived hate crime.”

Some homeless services organizations in Portland are borrowing a concept from the commercial real estate world to quickly house people experiencing homelessness. Now they’re looking to scale up the use of what’s called master leasing.

A new report from Portland State University found that a majority of people living in these tiny villages are satisfied, and that neighbors who live next to these communities grow less concerned over time.

As Oregon prepares to lift its mask mandate for most indoor spaces, parents and children under five who cannot yet be vaccinated face a turning point that means navigating a new world of optional masks in schools and other public places.