Housing
Need and poverty are rising in Oregon
"It feels like I’m the string quartet on the Titanic," M. said — referencing the quartet playing as the ship sank — while they cradled two paper grocery bags brimming with food. They stood outside William Temple House, a large Tudor brick building capped with a blue rooftop that houses a food pantry. M., who did…
HUD launches affordable housing and rehousing initiative to combat national homelessness crisis
What was once a battered Econo Lodge, a strip of rooms bordering a blacktop asphalt parking lot near downtown Hillsboro, is now a flagship rehousing project offering temporary transitional housing to homeless people. Washington County purchased the building for $6.15 million using Project Turnkey funds. Jenny Aguirre, program manager for the Hillsboro Bridge Shelter, said…
Opinion
Opinion | Labor law failings and reviving the labor movement
If you follow the news, it must seem like joining a union is a step outside the norms of U.S. law. After all, the media is full of stories about how big companies like Starbucks and Amazon threaten their pro-union workers with dismissal, spy on their employees and require them to participate in meetings with…
Kaia Sand | Street Roots sends a message of ‘HOPE’
A man walked to the corner of Northwest Third Avenue and West Burnside Street, moving slowly, likely worn from weathering nights outside. I gestured for him to look up at the banner we just dropped over the face of our building on Northwest 3rd Avenue and West Burnside. HOPE. He saw it and smiled a big,…
News
Rewriting Indigenous History
The massive lake known in English as Crater Lake attracts visitors from all over the world to admire its splendor and beauty. However, what's lesser known about the lake, called giiwas in the Klamath language, is that it’s of great cultural and spiritual significance to the Klamath Tribes (Klamath, Modoc, Yahooskin). Klamath oral tradition described…
