Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Keeping a steady faith on the streets
The things in life that are most important to vendor Regina Blakeman are her children, God and Street Roots, in that order. She has six sons, living throughout the greater Portland area and Washington. Her youngest son is 21. Regina’s boys love seafood, which she claims is due to her job at the Keg, a…
Housing
Is parking reform the secret to new Oregon housing?
Beginning Jan. 3, some parking mandates in Oregon housing construction were no more. The state’s land use commission approved the new rules last July in hopes of accomplishing numerous impacts, namely enabling more housing construction. Earlier this year, newly sworn-in Gov. Tina Kotek issued an executive order outlining a goal to construct 36,000 new homes…
Tenants, landlords square off over Senate Bill 611
President Lyndon Johnson said, "Education is the only valid passport from poverty," but 58 years later, Andrea Haverkamp said a lot of highly educated people live in cars while they wait for those passports to be stamped. Haverkamp received her doctorate in environmental engineering with a minor in queer studies at Oregon State University two…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | We build this neighborhood together
His hands lifted to the sky, the man was chanting. He did not seem to notice me or any of the people in hard hats from O’Neill Construction Group and Finish Line Concrete Cutting who were working to remove concrete from the basement. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents…
News
Tenants, landlords square off over Senate Bill 611
President Lyndon Johnson said, "Education is the only valid passport from poverty," but 58 years later, Andrea Haverkamp said a lot of highly educated people live in cars while they wait for those passports to be stamped. Haverkamp received her doctorate in environmental engineering with a minor in queer studies at Oregon State University two…
