The City of Portland, Multnomah Co. and affordable housing provider Home Forward partnered with the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management for the heat study.
PORTLAND, Ore. — If you lived in Portland during the summer of 2021, changes are you remember the historic June heat wave that killed nearly 70 people in Multnomah County alone.
“No house in Portland was built for the climate that we have now, because our climate is changing so fast,” said Jonna Papaefthimiou, Chief Resilience Officer with Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Management. “It was so heartbreaking for us. It was also a clear signal that climate change is not something that
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