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SWHRL is excited to host a Fall Membership Mixer on Wednesday, October 21st, from 6:30-8pm at St. Thomas More Parish Hall. Much like an open house, SW Hills committees and volunteers will be available to empower neighbors with tools and resources. Please bring your family and enjoy this opportunity to connect with your neighbors!

The Houselessness Solutions Coalition (HSC) represents 34 diverse neighborhood, nonprofit and business organizations that have joined together to promote positive solutions to our homeless crisis. HSC is sponsoring the Multnomah County Chair Candidate Forum on Solutions to Unsheltered Homelessness on Tuesday, October 20 at First Baptist Church, located at 909 SW 11th Ave, from 4:30-6… Read more: MultCo Chair Candidate Forum on Solutions to Unsheltered Homelessness Oct. 20 at 4:30pm

Key aspects of ranked choice voting, including reminders and what’s new this year: Multnomah County will now use (Ranked Choice Voting) RCV for single-winner countywide races, along with the city of Portland multi-winner council races in districts 3 and 4 and the city auditor. Ranking will be the same process for city and county voters:… Read more: Ranked Choice Voting used throughout MultCo for Nov ’26

Candidate Forum featuring candidates running for City Council in November. When: Sunday, October 11, 2026 from 2-5pmWhere: Sellwood Community House, 1436 SE Spokane St. Zoom link: https://bit.ly/D4-ElectionForum

PBOT announced that repair work on the landslide is complete, and the road is now open to all users. https://www.portland.gov/transportation/pbot-projects/construction/sw-fairmount-boulevard-landslide-response SWHRL would like to thank PBOT for the work, and their many efforts to make sure neighbors were kept up-to-date on progress.

September 2026 Board of Directors Meeting. Link to Meeting

PBOT has started the final repair work on the SW Fairmount slide; this means the road will remain local traffic only, with the addition of a total traffic closure – including bikes and pedestrians – at the project site. Portland Parks has indicated that the Towhee Trail is open, and should remain so, with perhaps… Read more: SW Fairmount landslide repair update

SWHRL apologies for not posting this earlier! As you may have noticed, PBOT shut down SW Broadway Drive late July and cut as much of the weedy trees and vegetation in the right-of-way as they could; they hauled around 10 dump trucks of material away. This was a joint effort through the Governors Park Neighborhood… Read more: Belated SW Broadway Dr “brushing” thank you to PBOT and PF&R!

SWHRL residents should be aware of two traffic disruptions at the end of the month. 2. The other disruption will be larger and longer as ODOT works on the I-5/84 area for several weeks starting September 11th. https://i5rosequarter.org/current-construction-travel-impacts/#Southbound The suggested detour route from ODOT, with improvements by Reddit user easykehl: Even though it may not… Read more: Transportation disruptions ahead

On Sunday, August 30 from 1-5pm, SWHRL is co-hosting a Safety and Survival Summit. This summit is designed to help anyone increase their readiness in the event of a disaster, inclement weather or a major community disruption that requires evacuation or sheltering in place. Please share this opportunity with your networks, neighbors and loved ones to… Read more: Safety & Resilience Summit 8/30/26 from 1-5pm