Housing
Despite historical failures, Portland wants to fine, jail homeless Portlanders
Update: Portland City Council passed the ordinance discussed in this story June 7. City Council voted 3-1 in favor, with Commissioner Carmen Rubio as the only vote in opposition. Commissioner Mingus Mapps was absent and did not vote on the ordinance. Editor’s note: This story references sexual and domestic violence. It's unclear if staffers from…
What lies ahead for Project Turnkey 2.0
David Boone, a 72-year-old Salem man, usually sleeps on the ground, but for one night, he slept in a palace. It had an actual bed with a mattress, box spring and clean sheets. It had a bathroom with a shower, toilet and door. It was just a Salem hotel room no one else was using…
News
Despite historical failures, Portland wants to fine, jail homeless Portlanders
Update: Portland City Council passed the ordinance discussed in this story June 7. City Council voted 3-1 in favor, with Commissioner Carmen Rubio as the only vote in opposition. Commissioner Mingus Mapps was absent and did not vote on the ordinance. Editor’s note: This story references sexual and domestic violence. It's unclear if staffers from…
Remembering the Vanport flood and Portland’s history of internment
Just over 80 years ago, the U.S. government ordered 3,700 Japanese Americans from Oregon and parts of Washington to report to the Portland Expo Center in North Portland along the Columbia River. A series of buildings, previously used for cattle auctions and livestock exhibitions, became an assembly center where the government held Japanese Americans as…
Last month in Oregon labor | May 2023
Oregon’s labor scene saw at least five union wins, two new filings and 11 labor actions in May — a dramatic drop in union wins and filings from April but a slight increase in labor action due to International Workers’ Day events. In particular, May was a month of ups and downs for the United…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | Tell us your Street Roots vendor stories
“When I moved to Portland, I didn’t know anyone,” Stacey Heath, Street Roots board chair, told me. Then she met Bruce Heino. It was 2009. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. At first, she was simply buying newspapers from him when she picked up groceries at New…
