News
Weekly publication, daily triumphs mark an extraordinary year
Welcome to Street Roots’ 2014-15 annual report. What an amazing and historic year. In January, after three years of planning and community support, Street Roots doubled its publication schedule to weekly. By going weekly we have been able to give vendors a more stable income, week in and week out. Newspaper sales have increased 60…
Life of glamour — and homelessness
A typical week for model, actor and photographer Mark Reay — a debonair, 6-foot-3, 56-year-old — is spent shooting at New York Fashion Week, appearing in Hollywood films and attending gallery openings. He has been snapped for Vogue. He has played a wealthy playboy in “Sex and the City” and an agent in “Men in…
Opinion
Renter state of emergency
This week, the Community Alliance of Tenants declared a renter state of emergency. It’s a state many people have been living in for a long time. Considering the trauma involved when people cannot find a place to live that they can afford, the impact on children moved from place to place, the financial crush of…
For families like Jeff’s
Jeff Riddle was nervous, sure. The public hearing about affordable housing was packed with more than 100 housing advocates and in front of him, sat a table of important community and government decision makers. Jeff had come to give testimony about his family and their pending no-cause eviction, and about the men he works with…
