Opinion
Kaia Sand | Despite inhospitable conditions, unhoused communities harbor hope
The rumor was that someone scooped a frozen hummingbird, hoping they could resuscitate it, but they were only met with the strange stillness of a usually fluttering bird. It was the coldest day of the year thus far, below 20 degrees, and the tiny nectar-seeking bird just couldn’t survive. Kaia Sand is the executive director…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | ‘Being poor is expensive’
Street Roots vendor Peter Clark is excited to be working again and hopes to raise enough money to move back home to Syracuse, New York. He moved to Portland 10 years ago for the medical cannabis program, but now that medical cannabis is legal in many other places, his goal is to raise the money…
News
New Avenues for Youth workers want a union
Workers at New Avenues for Youth, a social services nonprofit for homeless youth, notified organization leadership they want a union. Despite requesting voluntary recognition from management over a week ago, workers said leadership told them the organization is still discussing the issue. “We got an email response two days after we went public and asked…
ODOC fails to disclose cause of more than 63% of in-custody deaths
Federal laws require state prisons to track all in-custody deaths, but a Street Roots investigation shows these reports are often incomplete in Oregon. Street Roots reviewed 10 legally mandated quarterly reports listing in-custody deaths spanning 2020, 2021 and the first two quarters of 2022. It found the Oregon Department of Corrections, or ODOC, failed to…
