Housing
Powerful medicine: Housing advocate Bobby Weinstock on affordable housing
Bobby Weinstock’s original career idea was to become a psychologist. Just shy of completing his graduate degree, he decided that instead of treating patients one on one in a clinical setting, he could help shape public policies that contribute to the well-being of many people at a time. He began his career in affordable housing…
Opinion
Opinion | It’s time to bring back universal subsidized child care
We face many big challenges and we will need strong, bold policies to meaningfully address them. Solving our child care crisis is one of those challenges and a study of World War II government efforts to provide accessible and affordable high-quality child care points to the kind of bold action we need. The child care crisis…
Kaia Sand | It’s a global movement
“It's been raining ashes for the past couple of days due to the wildfires not too far away from here.” While this could frequently be a sentence uttered in the western United States, it was actually how Chris Alefantis, founder and editor-in-chief of Greek street paper Shedia, described the surroundings of his office “a stone's throw…
News
Oregon advocates continue push for decriminalization of sex work after bill fails
If Kat Salas could, she would snap her fingers and decriminalize full-service sex work in Oregon tomorrow. But, she feels conversations and more education need to happen before decriminalization is not just a dream but actually reality. A bill written to do just that; decriminalize outlawed forms of sex work, failed to pass during the…
