Neighbors Take Opposition to Union Station Homeless Shelter to Court

The city of Portland and its economic development agency are being sued by three neighbors of a Northwest homeless shelter, who say the city promised to tear it down. The shelter, the River District Navigation Center, opened in 2019 after the city’s economic development agency, Prosper Portland, leased property on the outskirts of Union Station to Oregon Harbor of Hope. The nonprofit, with the help of a $3 million donation from Columbia Sportswear’s Tim Boyle, built a Quonset hut-like building on the property.

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