Opinion
Kaia Sand | Street Roots vendors have a lot to teach about ‘Finding Joy in Chaos’
The martini glass lights up the Portland West Hills for anyone in eyeshot, a landmark of the year’s end. Street Roots vendor and poet George McCarthy notices it. “Like all homeless people, I’m looking for pieces of home, little rags of memory … the city is collaged with little bits of my thoughts — the…
Opinion | Microtransit offers flexibility, convenience
Transit in America is in rough shape. The lockdowns at the start of the pandemic cratered bus ridership across the country, causing many Americans to wonder if transit has a future in a nation where 90% of households already own a car. A periodic column about new approaches to transportation, land use and systems planning that…
Housing
Eviction court favors landlords
What’s surprising about watching eviction court proceedings is how utterly bureaucratic they are. People on the receiving end of eviction are devastated. They are scrambling to keep their lives intact, attempting to figure out where to go, how to eat, how to stay dry, how to keep going to work and what to do with…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Rebuilding her life
The root cause for houselessness hardly comes from a cookie-cutter mold, but a common cause is the crumbling of a relationship with a spouse or family member. Even though Sonya Aho owns a home, she camped in her Chevy Trailblazer in Portland parks for more than a year. Sonya inherited her Beaverton family home after…
News
New, innovative project offers lifeline to youths after foster care
Outside a building bathed in colorful graffiti along Southeast 122nd Avenue in Portland’s Mill Park neighborhood, several young men sporting tattoos, high top sneakers and tracksuits give it up for 20-year-old Bruno Dunham. The group, each from Ascending Flow’s mentoring program, shoot video of Dunham as he walks down the street, singing an original song…
