Catie Gould

A recent @wweek.com, a beloved local paper!

Newspaper ad for tiny houses starting at $50,000.

Reporting live from the war zone of Portland:

Legal, low cost housing options that other cities are still dreaming about.

Homes on Wheels Are Filling a Big Gap in Portland | Sightline Institute Three personal stories showing how small, affordable, and flexible homes on wheels can provide big solutions for Portland families.

You can learn more about the regulations of tiny homes on wheels vs ADUs here: www.sightline.org/2025/09/11/h...

Newspaper ad for tiny houses starting at $50,000.

Reporting live from the war zone of Portland:

Legal, low cost housing options that other cities are still dreaming about.

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

My anxiety seems not misplaced. 😡

“The 82nd airborne division is an elite unit that specialises in parachute assaults and forcible entry operations.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

With Newfound Sway in City Hall, Portland’s Democratic Socialists Hope to Redefine the City’s Priorities How do you solve a problem like an unprecedented city budget deficit? Over the last few months of budget planning, Portland leaders suggested a host of ways to close the roughly $93 million gap, from ...

I’ll end this by actually sharing the Mercury article, lol.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: ‘I feel defeated’ The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

I haven’t slept well since I saw photos of the Chicago apartment raid.

Imagine waking up to exlplosions in the middle of the night, being dragged out of bed. When you are “released” hours later your furniture, belongings…gone.

Now these goons are in my city. 🤮

Shoup Doctrine, book about Donald Shoup’s work on parking reform.

In good news, I got this book just in time to bring to Shoup’s memorial service at UCLA tomorrow. Very special that he got to read & edit these essays in tribute to his work before he passed away last year. 🥹

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

We need more construction workers to build homes not less!

Another case of a US citizen with a specialized skills in homebuilding being detained without cause at their construction site.

See you there! 👋

"If this can happen in broad daylight to an American senior citizen who committed no crime, it can happen to anyone."

79-year-old US citizen claims ICE agents body-slammed him at his business, seeks $50M An elderly Los Angeles business owner has filed a $50 million federal administrative claim alleging he was body-slammed and detained by immigration agents.

A 79-year-old Los Angeles business owner has filed a $50 million federal administrative claim alleging he was body-slammed & detained by ICE during a raid at his Van Nuys car wash earlier this month.

He suffered multiple broken ribs, elbow injuries & a brain injury.

abcnews.go.com/US/79-year-u...

Saw two ponies with unicorn horns at the food cart pod today ❤️🌈🦄 #Portland

ICE releases Ohio hospital chaplain. Case for detention unclear • Ohio Capital Journal With no warning last Friday, a former Cincinnati Children' s Hospital chaplain was released after a 72-day stay in the Butler County Jail. 

One week ago, Ayman Soliman was released from ICE detention and his legal asylum status was reinstated. Immigration officials concluded that they didn’t have a case for revoking his status as a refugee.

He spent 72 days in the Butler County Jail.

This graf does so much work.

@nytimes.com #Comey
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Kilmar is still in the US for now, but they’re trying to deport him elsewhere still. And this little monarchy apparently is willing to imprison whoever we send.

Rights group calls for urgent action for 5 men deported by US and held in Eswatini without charges International rights group Amnesty International has called for urgent action from authorities in the southern African nation of Eswatini to give five men deported there by the United States access to...

I was so taken with the story of Kilmar's accidental (?) deportation last spring that I set up a google news alert to stay up to date on his case. This is what came up today. ESWANTINI.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“This is a one way trip”

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Cannot stress this enough, the black population is actually growing in the areas of the black community inside areas with housing growth.

Excellent example of why WA legislators are passing statewide zoning reforms.

How the violent suppression of the rock band PPU led to revolution in Czechoslovakia Mark Beaumont discovers the band known as PPU, and how their secret 1970s gigs set in motion the movement that would ultimately topple the totalitarian communist regime

Seems like a good time to remind people that the censorship & arrest of a rock band was one of the pivotal moments that ultimately led to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia.

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

The honor is mine. I would count myself lucky to have half Shoup’s career. Glad he got to see the fruits of his work.

i'm SO excited for this housing option, esp in some of our most expensive and exclusive cities!

my colleague catie w 3 stories of housing hope:

I cried for like a day after I got my 13mini. I thought someone would have made an app to artificially shrink the screen to a thumb reachable size but no.

Unpredictable tariffs and deportations hurt the whole construction industry, regardless of location or ideology!

Good morning to the triple deckers of New Haven. May they be legal to build everywhere.