Housing
Housing Rural Oregon: A crisis beyond Portland’s boundaries
Elizabeth Reyes grew up in Lincoln City. The small tourist town on the Oregon Coast is her home, where she works full time and spends her money, where her children go to school. She’s a proud second-generation member of the Lincoln City community. “I grew up here. I lived in low-income housing for quite a…
Portland’s rental housing commission launches
Portland’s Rental Services Commission held its inaugural meeting Nov. 22, breaking ground on the city’s first permanent public body tasked with making policy recommendations on rental housing regulations. But it will be some time before anyone can say whether the advisory commission will have a meaningful impact on policy related to rising rental costs and…
The housing crisis across rural Oregon
Street Roots received funding from Meyer Memorial Trust’s Affordable Housing Initiative to develop dedicated reporting on rural housing issues. The goal is to broaden our views around housing policy to promote better understanding of the issues communities face across the state. We also highlight the common ground that we all share, and the solutions we…
News
Education, not condemnation, say women who survived violence
Sally Mboumien remembers the day she pressed a steaming hot stone against her chest. In Bawock, the rural community of western Cameroon where she grew up, young girls often had their young, sprouting breasts flattened with a hot iron or a hammer or spatulas that had been heated over burning coals. This was good for…
Restoring power to the people with solutions-oriented journalism
Car crashes. Robberies. Drug busts. Fires. A murder. These are topics of stories you might watch during the evening news, and it’s enough to make you think the world is falling apart. “If it bleeds, it leads” was the mantra to describe the derogatory attitude of what is, and is not, covered by journalism. This…
Opinion
Editorial cartoon: Dec. 1, 2017
Portland native Elizabeth Considine is the creator of Street Roots' editorial cartoon, Sheeptoast. Want to see more Sheeptoast cartoons? VIEW OUR GALLERY
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: ‘I refuse to be stuck’
Allen grew up in the Portland area but learned about hard work in faraway and foreign places. Early on, he worked for 10 years as a deli and catering manager in Chicago. But when Allen started a bakery and a liquor store in Mexico, he worked day and night for three years. “I was definitely…
