Vendor Profiles
SR vendor profile: Count on her for the entertainment
Peaches Youngerman’s first Lions Club meeting was in Portland’s northeast Hollywood neighborhood in October 2017. Her boyfriend, Mel, was her sponsor. After joining the Lions that night, Peaches became a greeter at the Hollywood Farmers Market every Sunday. She made friends with the Lions Club members, joined their Monte Carlo bowling tournament and won the…
Housing
Life on the Streets: The full moon
Early Friday morning, April 19, the sidewalk outside Street Roots was alive with talk of the gleaming full moon the night before. Some vendors were enchanted and left their rooms, tents, doorways and shelter mats to gaze at April’s “Pink Moon” rising over Mount Hood from bridges, balconies and rose gardens. Others, sensitive to the…
Oregon bill pits housing against the environment
A bill moving through the Oregon Legislature aimed at easing housing construction in some rural areas is at odds with regulations set under the Clean Water Act. While environmental groups say House Bill 2796 would give developers a free pass to build over the state’s dwindling stock of wetlands, developers say that without its passage,…
News
Because children are voiceless: Why foster youths sued Oregon
A federal class-action lawsuit detailing harrowing experiences of 10 children in Oregon’s foster care system comes as no shock to former foster youth Elizabeth Graves. “It should have happened a long time ago,” she said. A national watchdog group began investigating Oregon’s foster care system more than eight months ago and joined co-counsel to file…
Poverty: The biggest obstacle to higher education
Scholar-activist Sara Goldrick-Rab often reflects on an eye-opening day after class when a student came to her and said she was hungry. The student didn’t have money for food, and the lack of food was hurting her school work. It was cases like this and the well-documented impact hunger has on education that prompted lawmakers…
The mandate for system change is growing
I intend to write about hope, but to do that, I’ll start with some bleak moments. Bear with me. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You can reach her at kaia@streetroots.org. Follow her on Twitter @mkaiasand There was that morning when the man emptied his pockets of rocks, declaring that’s all…
Oregon bill pits housing against the environment
A bill moving through the Oregon Legislature aimed at easing housing construction in some rural areas is at odds with regulations set under the Clean Water Act. While environmental groups say House Bill 2796 would give developers a free pass to build over the state’s dwindling stock of wetlands, developers say that without its passage,…
Opinion
The mandate for system change is growing
I intend to write about hope, but to do that, I’ll start with some bleak moments. Bear with me. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You can reach her at kaia@streetroots.org. Follow her on Twitter @mkaiasand There was that morning when the man emptied his pockets of rocks, declaring that’s all…
Environment
Oregon bill pits housing against the environment
A bill moving through the Oregon Legislature aimed at easing housing construction in some rural areas is at odds with regulations set under the Clean Water Act. While environmental groups say House Bill 2796 would give developers a free pass to build over the state’s dwindling stock of wetlands, developers say that without its passage,…
