Can new-fangled mortgages finance Portland’s tiny-home boom?
Portland’s enthusiasm for building small and tiny homes has been so abrupt, so unusual and so locally unique that the home mortgage industry hasn’t figured out how to take advantage of it.
Michael Andersen (Contributor)
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Business, fun and diversity on the agenda at Oregon Active Transportation Summit
The two-day Oregon Active Transportation Summit, which starts one week from Monday, is filling out its schedule and the good stuff is starting to spill over.
The BikePortland Podcast: The state of bike advocacy
Who speaks for those who ride? Do they speak for all of us who ride? What about all of us who want to?
The Monday Roundup: Mapping every collision, handmade bikes and more
A team of MIT researchers visualized every bike crash from 2010-2013. And other great bike links of the week.
Documentary bikepacking expedition will track famous wolf OR-7
A team of documentary storytellers is getting on mountain bikes to trace the trail of Oregon’s most famous canine.
Oregon Business mag says private sector is leading ‘cycling’s next wave’
As Portland’s government seems to be scaling back its bike investments after years of leading the nation, its private sector is charging ahead after discovering that bike-awareness has become a good way to make money.
With Hawaii expansion and a new book, bike-tour entrepreneur Todd Roll is on the move
Todd Roll of downtown-based Pedal Bike Tours has had a big spring.
SprocketFly.com creates a web platform for bike-repair housecalls
Portland is great at delivering things by bike: flowers, beer, plumbing. A new company wants to be a platform for delivering … bike repairs.
Neighborhood group will gather support for Burnside road diet near Mt. Tabor
A neighborhood activist is looking for volunteers to help him research the effects of adding buffered or parking-protected bike lanes on Burnside.
Gallery: Here’s how Portlanders store their bikes at home
Portlanders have known for years that we’re blessed with some of the best public and commercial bike parking in the country. But our private bike parking goes unsung.
Sam Oakland, leader of the ‘Shift of the 1970s,’ dies at 80
Sam Oakland, an English professor, poet and author who rode his bicycle to work at what was then Portland State College, started rallying bicycle riders to attend City Hall hearings in the late 1960s.
City telephone poll puts PBOT’s possible monthly street fee at $8 to $12 per home
An 800-person phone poll that wraps up tonight is offering some new insight on the city’s leading ideas for raising money for transportation projects.