Housing
HUD’s ‘House America’ initiative takes housing-first approach to homelessness
Communities across the country face an unprecedented rate of homelessness. Once considered a phenomenon generally confined to big cities by the public and lawmakers, homelessness emerged as an issue in cities and communities across the nation as worsening poverty and the rising cost of living expanded. The dual crises of the pandemic and housing affordability…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | How Street Roots found its new space
Jason found Street Roots its new organizational home. It was February of 2021, and I was biking around Old Town, a map of properties printed from Portland Maps clutched in my hand. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. “You had rolled up, and I said hi,” Street…
Culture
The Kidz Outside festival brings community in
Mat Randol spent a good chunk of his childhood at George Park in Portland’s St. Johns neighborhood. From hanging out with friends on the playground to walking across the dandelion-covered grass to catch his school bus — the park was an integral part of his life. Alongside writer and artist Donovan Scribes, Randol will return…
Lehuauakea uses art to say Native Hawaiians are still here
This is the first installation in a series of profiles and Q&As with Indigenous artists with roots in, or connections to, the Pacific Northwest. Born in Portland and raised on their ancestral homelands of Pāpaʻikou on Moku O Keawe (the Big Island of Hawai'i), Lehuauakea is a mixed Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) interdisciplinary artist and…
